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Remember, you can access Criminal Law Week Online content even when you are not online by downloading the
offline browser – perfect when you are in court, or in transit. The offline browser allows you to browse through the
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Each Criminal Law Week issue consists of concise, original digests of:
• all criminal cases reported in our case sources – for a complete list, click the link for the “Up to date box” in the orange EXTRAS box that appears in the html version of the latest issue
• important unreported cases, including cases from the Supreme Court and Privy Council
• all criminal legislation published each week
• other material such as sentencing guidelines and criminal procedure forms
James Richardson Q.C., who edits Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice, is the founder and editor
of Criminal Law Week. His sharp, no-holds-barred commentary is one of Criminal Law Week’s most popular features.
Every Criminal Law Week issue
(from 1997 to today) is available on
Criminal Law Week Online, in both
PDF and HTML format. The HTML
version is packed with features that
are not available in the PDF version –
see Special features.
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To find a particular issue, hover
your mouse over ISSUES at the top
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Issue List from the drop-down menu.
Clicking on the issue year will bring
up a list of all issues in that year.
Click on the red box for the PDF
and blue text for the HTML version
To find a particular digest or search on a particular topic, see SEARCHING CRIMINAL LAW WEEK ONLINE.
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Each digest in a Criminal Law Week issue is assigned a unique Criminal Law Week reference.
For example, CLW/13/08/3 refers to item 3 of issue 8 of 2013. You’ll see CLW references all over Criminal Law
Week Online. Clicking on a CLW reference takes you straight to that digest. Sometimes CLW references appear
without the CLW/ in front (e.g. 13/08/3).
Special Features
While the Criminal Law Week issues in PDF format are perfect for printing, Criminal Law Week
digests in HTML format are packed with features that are not available in the PDF format.
Click on the feather icon to open a transcript of the judgment, provided by
CASETRACK. Full-text judgments are available for Court of Appeal and High
Court cases digested in Criminal Law Week issues from 2001 onwards.
Click on the clipboard icon to add the digest to your clipboard – for more
information, see CLIPBOARD.
Click on the Table of Cases (ToC) icon to bring up a pop-up box with information
from the Criminal Law Week table of cases, so you’ll know the best citation to
use in court.
Click on the printer icon to print the digest.
The update box tells you how a case has been subsequently treated (upheld,
reversed, considered, applied, distinguished, etc.) and the current status of
legislation (amended, repealed, revoked, etc.). Clicking on a CLW reference in
the Update box will take you to the relevant digest. Clicking on the clipboard
icon at the end of a list of updates will add all the digests in the list to your
clipboard – for more information, see CLIPBOARD.
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The Statutes Service is a collection of key criminal law statutes and statutory instruments, fully annotated by
experienced criminal lawyers. If you need information about a particular provision, and the Act is one included
in our Statutes Service, then the Statutes Service is the best place to start your research.
Navigating the Statutes Service
To search the Statutes Service, see SEARCHING CRIMINAL LAW WEEK ONLINE.
To view a particular provision, hover over STATUTES SERVICE
at the top of the page. This will bring up a drop-down menu
of all legislation included in the Statutes Service.
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Clicking on the legislation title takes you to the contents page.
Scroll down to select the provision you wish
to view.
You can always return to the contents page
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Type the number of the provision you want
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The Statutes Service shows you not only what a particular statutory provision looks like today; it also shows you
what the provision used to look like, and changes that will be made in the future.
The general rule is:
[ words in square brackets ] – indicate that whatever is in the brackets has been inserted by an amendment.
words struck through – indicate that whatever is struck through has been repealed or revoked by an amendment.
[ underlined words in square brackets ] – indicate that whatever is in the brackets will be inserted by an amendment
that is not yet in force.
underlined words – indicate that whatever is underlined will be repealed or revoked by an amendment that is not yet in force.
But it can get more complicated. You should always look at the Amendments/ Repeals tab together with the provision
to get the full picture.
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Each provision is followed by annotations:
When a provision was (or will be) brought into force.
Where the provision extends to.
What transitional or savings provisions apply to the provision, and to any
amendments or repeals.
Details of amendments and repeals.
Any modifications that have effect.
Link through to definitions, etc., of words or phrases used in the provision.
Information about applicable sentencing guidelines, including a link through
to the Criminal Law Week digest.
The Statutes Service is comprehensively cross-referenced with Criminal Law
Week digests. Link through to Criminal Law Week digests of relevant case law
and rules, etc.
Information about relevant codes of practice, including a link through to the
code in question.
Link through to subordinate legislation, and Criminal Law Week digests of
subordinate legislation, made under the provision.
Link through to Hansard references relevant to the provision.
The explanatory notes for the provision, as published by Parliament.
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There are many ways to search Criminal Law Week Online. How you search depends on what information you are
looking for, and what information you have. The wealth of information in Criminal Law Week digests and the Statutes
Service has been indexed by criminal practitioners so that you have all the information you need at your fingertips.
Wherever you are on Criminal Law Week Online, you will see a SEARCH box on the right hand side of the page.
Click the Select search options drop-down menu or the Advanced link to begin your search.
For tips about search terms, see Top tips for searching.
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Criminal Law Week Online’s subject index has been created by criminal lawyers for criminal lawyers. Criminal law
week digests are indexed by reference to intuitive key terms. If you are searching within a particular subject area (e.g.
hearsay, bad character, sentencing for fraud), then the subject index is a good place to start. To search, select Subject
index from the drop-down menu, then type your search term in the box.
TIP: The subject index looks like an alphabetical index in a book, and our search engine searches each line of the index for your search word. For best results, stick to one key word when searching.
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The subject index can be browsed
as well as searched. Hover over the
TABLES & INDEX menu at the top of
the page, and click on Subject index.
The orange box that appears on the
right below the search box allows
you to browse alphabetically.
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If you have some details of the name or citation of the case you are looking for, select Table of cases from
the drop-down menu.
For example, you might know that one of the appellants was called Clinton and the case was reported in 2012.
Type Clinton 2012 into the search box and click SEARCH. Or, if you know that the case was reported at [2012]
3 W.L.R. 515, type 2012 515 into the search box.
TIP: A good way to start searching is with a name from the case title and the year the case was decided or reported,
e.g. Clinton 2012.
TIP: Avoid using punctuation in a search term. When it comes to citations, instead of [2012] 3 W.L.R. 515,
type 2012 515.
TIP: You cannot search on a word that is less than four characters. So if you are looking for a case called R. v. X.,
for example, search by the citation or use the Advanced Search to search by judge name and/ or
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You will see where and under what name a
case has been reported, so you can use the
best citation in court.
The table of cases can be browsed
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TABLES & INDEX menu at the top of
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The orange box that appears on the
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If you are interested in a particular provision, and the Act is one included in our Statutes Service, then the
Statutes Service is the best place to start your research. Each provision is fully annotated with information about
amendments and repeals, and all relevant cases reported in the Criminal Law Week Case Sources will be listed in
the Authorities section. For more information, see STATUTES SERVICE.
Select Statutes Service from the drop-down menu. You can go directly to a specific provision in the Statutes Service
by selecting the Act name from the drop down menu, typing the provision number into the Prov. No. field, and
clicking SEARCH. Alternatively, you can search a particular Act or the entire Statutes Service for a key word, words,
or phrase.
See also Top tips for searching, and Advanced search. For statutes not included in our Statutes Service, see Search
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If the statute you are looking for is not in the Statutes Service, you can still find all the information you
need. Select Table of statutes from the drop-down menu. The table of statutes not only directs you
to the Criminal Law Week digest of that statute (if 1997 or later), but will give you links to Criminal
Law Week digests of cases that have considered particular statutory provisions, and of subordinate
legislation made under that statute.
For example, if you are looking for the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, type powers in the
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If you know the name or year/number of the regulations, order, or rules you are looking for, select Table of SIs from
the drop-down menu. For example, if you want to find the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 5) Order
2010 (S.I. 2010 No. 1858), type Coroners into the SI name field and 2010 into the Year field, or 2010 into the Year field
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The table of statutory instruments
can be browsed as well as searched.
Hover over the TABLES & INDEX
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Criminal Law Week does not carry articles, but we do list articles
of practical interest that are published in our case sources. To assist
your legal research, you can find details of these articles in our table
of articles.
To search, select Table of articles from the drop-down menu.
To browse, hover over the TABLES & INDEX menu at the top of the
page, and click on Table of articles. The orange box that appears
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subject index. It is also useful when your search terms are too complex for the subject index. Advanced search allows
you to search across all Criminal Law Week digests, or across the Statutes Service. To perform an advanced search,
click Advanced at the top of the search box.
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Click here to search across all Criminal Law
Week issues
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You can select a particular Act by using the
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You can use these fields to select how you would
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Criminal Law Week Online uses the standard Boolean operators AND, OR, NEAR and NOT. These operators make
it possible to search not only for items that contain a specific keyword or exact phrase, but also:
• Search for items that contain all of a specified combination of keyword(s)/ exact phrase(s) (AND).
• Search for items that contain at least one of a number of different keywords/ phrases (OR)
• Limit a search to keywords/ phrases that appear within 50 words of each other (NEAR)
• Exclude specific keywords/ phrases from a search (NOT)
• Carry out complex searches using combinations of a number of Boolean operators
Exact phrases
A phrase consisting of a number of words in a specified order must be surrounded by double quotes, e.g. ”bad character”.
Small words
The site cannot search on words that are less than four characters, such as to, of and for. Should you wish to search
for abuse of process, be sure to surround your search query with double quotes (”abuse of process”).
AND
To search for items that contain a number of keywords/ phrases, separate search terms with a space, e.g. ”false
impression” implied assertion or with the word AND, e.g. ”false impression” AND implied AND assertion.
OR
To search for items that contain at least one of a number of keywords/ phrases, separate search terms with the word
OR, e.g. ”bad character” OR ”hearsay evidence” OR retrial.
NEAR
To search for items that contain keywords/ phrases within 50 words of each other, separate search terms with the
word NEAR, e.g. ”false impression” NEAR assertion.
NOT
To search for items that contain one keyword/ phrase but which do not contain another keyword/ phrase, separate
search terms with the word NOT, e.g. to search for items that contain the phrase bad character, but do not contain
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The use of brackets with Boolean operators permits more complex searching.
Example 1: to search for items
containing either:
robbery AND ”offensive weapon”
or:
robbery AND firearm,
or both, type: robbery AND
(”offensive weapon” OR firearm)
Example 2: to search for items
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”abuse of process” AND
”agent provocateur”
or contain:
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Week Online, you will see clipboard icons at the bottom of digests, in the subject index, table of cases,
table of statutes, or table of statutory instruments, or within the Statutes Service. Clicking on the
clipboard (so a red tick appears) will add the item(s) to your clipboard.
To view your clipboard, click on CLIPBOARD at the top of the page.
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