Bail in Criminal Proceedings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: November 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 822
ISBN-13: 9780199264759
First sentence: The right to be bailed, Sir James Stephen observed, 'is as old as the law of England itself and is explicitly recognised by our earliest writers' (A History of the Criminal Law of England, 3 vols, London: Macmillan, 1883 (hereafter HCL), vol. i, p. 233).