Adult Conditional Cautions

This page provides guidance for CPS prosecutors in cases where criminal investigations have been commenced in more than one jurisdiction and involve suspected criminal conduct that crosses international boundaries. In this guidance, such cases are referred to as cases of concurrent jurisdiction.

A Code of Practice to be applied regarding Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA). DPAs involve companies reaching an agreement with a prosecutor, where the company is charged with a criminal offence but proceedings are automatically suspended. The company agrees to a number of conditions, which may include payment of a financial penalty, payment of compensation and implementation of a corporate compliance programme. DPAs may be used for fraud, bribery and economic crime.

The Code for Crown Prosecutors is a public document, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions, that sets out the general principles Crown Prosecutors should follow when they make decisions on cases.

This document descibes the national review carried out by the CPS of all its Local Scrutiny Involvement Panels in 2012-13 and plans for future development in community engagement as a result of this review.

This document explains how the CPS applied good community engagement practice relating to Core Quality Standard 12 during 2012-13.

This annual report details the progress we have made during the period 2012-2013 on our Equality and Diversity Objectives 2012-2015.

The CPS Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy 2017-2020 sets out the vision for developing our VAWG work in line with the wider CPS and cross-government VAWG Strategy Objectives.

Prosecution lawyers have to decide whether or not cases should go to trial. In order to do this they have to go through the evidence collected by the police and make sure they understand it.