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Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) 2025

This is our strategy on rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO ) for the next five years.

CPS data summary Quarter 4 2019-2020

Introduction
Overall pre-charge and prosecutions
Hate crime
Domestic Abuse
Rape
Understanding CPS data definitions and caveats
Data spreadsheets

Introduction

The CPS transitioned from annual to quarterly reports from Q2 2019/20. In this release, in order to describe longer term trends, comparisons are made between Q4 rolling year to date (RYTD) 2019/20 and the full y

Service Level Agreement - External Advocates: Magistrates’ Court

Aim The aim of this service level agreement (SLA) is to establish a requirement for the service, receipt and presentation of digital information by external advocates when acting for the CPS in Magistrates’ Courts or the Youth Court. It also provides details of the levels of service which the parties are expected to provide.

Appeal Committee Ruling 1 of 2020 - Operation A

GFS Appeals Committee Operation [REDACTED] R-v- {REDACTED] Appeal of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]

CPS data summary Quarter 3 2019-2020

This is a summary of CPS prosecution data for Quarter 3, 2019-2020.

CPS data summary Quarter 2 2019-2020

This is a summary of CPS prosecution data for Quarter 2, 2019-2020.

Graduated Fee Scheme E - Manual of Guidance

The Graduated Fee Scheme E - Manual of Guidance and accompanying annexes are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs

Hate Crime Report 2018-2019

This is the eleventh Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) hate crime report, and brings together information on CPS performance in prosecuting racist and religious hate crime, homophobic and transphobic crime, crimes against the older person and disability hate crime.

Consultation on the CPS Legal Guidance on Mentally Disordered Offenders - Summary of Responses

This is a summary of responses to the public consultation undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on the revised legal guidance prepared to update its current Mentally Disordered Offenders legal guidance, and a statement of the revisions proposed which will form the finalised guidance to be issued.

CPS Fees - Appeals Committee Decisions

The purpose of the Advocate Fee Appeals Committee is to resolve disputes by reference to published CPS fee schemes, in particular the Graduated Fee Scheme (GFS) and the Very High Cost Case scheme (VHCC). The rulings of the Committee are published for general reference and are contained within this section. The rulings are redacted to remove case specific details and advocate names.

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