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BOOK REVIEW PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS Law and Practice By Hamish Arnott and Simon Creighton Legal Action Group 978 1908 407 283 www.lag.org.uk THE MOST UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO THE POWERS OF THE PAROLE BOARD NOW IN A NEW 3RD EDITION Anyone interested, professionally or otherwise, in the workings of parole board hearings should buy this book. Writing in the foreword to this new edition, the Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales, Sir David Calvert-Smith refers to ‘the pace of change, both legislative and judicial that has profoundly affected the parole system and the powers and duties of the Parole Board in the last four years since the last edition was published’. As publishers of this new edition, the admirable Legal Action Group (LAG) reminds us that this title ‘continues to be the only book dedicated to covering the decision-making powers and procedures of the Parole Board’. Certainly, the book contains the latest, most up-to-date material, including analysis of the Supreme Court judgments in certain key cases and the Parole Board rules themselves. Also discussed is the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. ¬The impact of the latest legal aid proposals indeed receives detailed consideration and is discussed concisely yet in detail in the new Chapter 14, even though the position regarding such proposals continues to remain unclear. Yet another issue is the matter of prison overcrowding, which will almost inevitably influence decisions made by the Board. Highly readable, logically organized and easily navigable the book functions as a handy and authoritative reference to all pertinent aspects of Parole Board hearings from assessment of risk, to matters relating to determinate sentences, indeterminate sentences, reviews of life sentences and much more. There is also a new Chapter 3 on Parole Board decision-making. For your further research, there are over twenty pages of tables of cases, statutes and statutory instruments and no less than nine appendices which include, for example, matters relating to the release and recall, both of life/indeterminate sentenced prisoners and determinate sentence prisoners. Besides an extensive and detailed index, there is also a list of useful contacts at the back. What is especially noteworthy about this volume of almost 500 pages is that it’s aimed not just at practitioners and professionals in this field, but also at prisoners and their families, such is its comprehensiveness and clarity. The publication date is 2014.Read full review
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