Prosecuting And Defending Drug Offences

"The second edition weaves practical information in with exploration of policy, case law, and surrounding legislation, integrated in such a way as to serve as a guide through the flow of a youth case and go far beyond a mere annotation of the law."--

"Misuse of Drugs has for many years enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as the core reference on the laws of drug misuse and trafficking. Written by specialist author Dr Don Mathias, the nineteen chapters of Misuse of Drugs are a treatment of central topics in criminal law from the perspective of drug offences. Indeed, the book guides the reader through all major aspects of this complex and multi-faceted area of the law, including: the range of offences related to the possession, manufacture, supply, production, import, export, procurement, production, cultivation, or consumption of controlled drugs; the court processes (including those relevant to bail applications, prevention of abuse of process, and sentencing) relevant to drug offences; the application of the law of evidence, search and seizure, and surveillance to drug offences; important forensic issues such as the need for the prosecution to prove that substances involved in alleged offences are in fact controlled drugs; The law related to forfeiture of proceeds of offending, proceeds of crime and money laundering. These features make the text essential reading for all criminal lawyers, and for judges, the police, probation officers, forensic scientists, students and members of the public interested in the law of drug misuse and trafficking."--Publisher's website.

Recoge 1. Foreword - 2. Acknowledgements - 3. Executive summary - 4. Introduction - 5. Synthesis of the country reports - 6. Country reports - 7. Contributors.

Complex Criminal Litigation: Prosecuting Drug Enterprises and Organized Crime provides practitioners and others interested in the federal criminal justice system with a comprehensive analysis of the arsenal of federal laws that provide federal prosecutors the means to combat criminal organizations, their leadership (i.e. the so-called "kingpins") and their infrastructure. These statutes include the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO); the Continuing Criminal Enterprise or CCE statute; the Money Laundering Control Act; federal firearms statutes; and criminal and civil forfeiture laws that permit the seizure and forfeiture of the profits and instrumentalities of illegal enterprises. Further, the treatise includes an analysis of the principal legal issues that federal prosecutors and defense attorneys need to consider in handling long-term, complex criminal conspiracies that frequently involve multiple and diverse criminal acts from the rules relating to grand jury secrecy, granting immunity, bail, criminal discovery, and all points in between. Finally, because organized criminal activity respects no national boundaries, the treatise includes a comprehensive discussion of international criminal law, including extraterritorial jurisdiction and extradition. Criminal trial attorneys involved in litigating complex criminal cases will benefit greatly from reading this treatise.

"This is a light update to the first edition of Prosecuting and Defending Drug Cases. The authors have updated each chapter to reflect developments and to generally improve the quality and practicality of the text. Updates also focused on making this book more national in scope, incorporating appellate cases from other provinces."--