Bail in Criminal Proceedings
Edition: 2nd Ed edition
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781854319210
Subjects: English law: criminal law; English legal system: criminal procedure; Criminal Procedure; Legal Reference / Law Profession
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).