Legaleagle Training
ADVISING THE SUSPECT AT THE POLICE STATION ON THE MOST SERIOUS OFFENCES – MURDER/RAPE/GBH ETC. IN 2023 – SATURDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2023 – 10:00 – 11.00:
This 1-hour ZOOM presentation by Colin Beaumont will be of benefit to anyone involved in advising clients at the police station stage who are under investigation for really serious offences.
The presentation will be accompanied by a full set of notes – all of the documents referred to in these notes will be contained in your notes
Anyone wishing to have the full set of notes and the recording afterwards should simply click here: mailto: colin@thelegaleagle.org or ring me (or send me a text) – (07887) 842985.
The Presentation will deal with the following 20 issues : (the following are merely 3 examples)
1 – Disclosure of information by the police – tactics to adopt when you know that the disclosure is simply ‘insufficient and inadequate’
2 – Making an opening statement at the commencement of the interview regarding the insufficiency and inadequacy of the disclosure – what to say and what not to say!!!
3 – Putting your client at the scene – 12+ ways in which those involved in the investigation may put your client at the scene – not a good idea to say in the 1st interview that he wasn’t even there!
The following 20 issues will be considered:
1 – Disclosure of information by the police – tactics to adopt when you know that the disclosure is simply ‘insufficient and inadequate’
2 – Making an opening statement at the commencement of the interview regarding the insufficiency and inadequacy of the disclosure – what to say and what not to say!!!
3 – Putting your client at the scene – 12+ ways in which those involved in the investigation may put your client at the scene – not a good idea to say in the 1st interview that he wasn’t even there!
4 – The Detention Clock and applications for Warrants of Further Detention
5 – Understanding the part that alcohol may play when under investigation for serious offences such as rape – the Court of Appeal decision in Bree
6 – What precisely do we mean by Diminished Responsibility and is this something your client ought to be putting forward in the police station interview?
7 – What do we mean by Provocation and what part does it play in the law as regards murder?
8 – The ‘no comment’ interview and the prepared statement read out during the interview or read out at the charging stage
9 – The importance not only of Section 34 but also of Sections 36 (objects substances or marks) and Section 37 (arrested at or near the scene of the crime) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
10 – The issue of consent – the definition of consent within the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and what the Court of Appeal had to say in the interesting case of Lawrance
11 – Something nasty tucked away in Section 47 (2) and (7) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 – do you know what it is?
12 – The seizure of your client’s clothes and forensics
13 – The refusal of bail by the police
14 – Serious Offences whereby the serious offence rates may be claimed by someone having the status of a Duty Solicitor – an examination of the 2022 Standard Crime Contract Specification document
15 – Attacking the character of the deceased – bad character considerations under the Criminal Justice Act 2003
16 – The client who wants to talk in order to lessen his/her involvement in all of this
17 – Clients whom the police want to interview and you know it is merely a ‘fishing exercise’
18 – Advice to give to the client who is being detained overnight as the police propose further interviews the following day
19 – Important points to get across in your confidential pre-interview consultation with the client
20 – Don’t forget the custody record and your right to read the record upon arrival at the station and throughout your client’s detention there – important things may be being added to the record during your visit
IMPORTANT
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