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  1. CPS Business Plan 2020-21

    … the Domestic Abuse Best Practice Framework to the Crown Court Joint police-CPS RASSO action plan Contributions to … we want our organisation to look like by 2025. It puts independence and fairness at the heart of how we deliver … the Domestic Abuse Best Practice Framework to the Crown Court Joint police-CPS RASSO action plan Contributions to …

  2. Corporate Manslaughter

    … is a corporate body, the penalty must be a fine. The Court also has power to make ancillary orders including … only information relating to the organisation before the court will be relevant, unless it is demonstrated to the court that the resources of a linked organisation are …

  3. Director’s Guidance on Charging, sixth edition, December 2020, incorporating the National File Standard

    … Test Applying the Threshold Test Prosecution advice Out-of-court disposals Material and information required for … from a prosecutor; the circumstances in which some out of court disposals may be given; the evidence and other … (ii) the effective management and prosecution of cases at court; the approach to be taken to the resolution and …

  4. New strangulation and suffocation laws will help protect victims

    … from Independent Domestic Violence Advisers and pre-trial court visits. As well as the use of special measures such as …

  5. Firearms

    … Act 1982 ). In R v Bewley [2012] EWCA Crim 1457 , the Court of Appeal held that: the Firearms Act 1982 had to be … for the weapon and the accompanying officer to come to court. Where the Firearms Officer is able to identify the … should have regard to timescales likely to be set by the court for service of evidence and the arrangements for staged …

  6. Immigration

    … these offences so that they are now triable in the Crown Court as well as the magistrates’ court. As these offences are now indictable, the Criminal … In Javaherifard and Miller [2005] EWCA Crim 3231 the court held “… it would be absurd if unlawful presence did not …

  7. Rape and Sexual Offences - Chapter 7: Key Legislation and Offences

    … of the offending supported by the evidence; Give the court adequate powers to sentence and impose appropriate … 9 SOA 2003 charges was criticised on the basis that the court’s sentencing powers were limited. The court observed “on any view they were offences of sexual …

  8. Consultation on Revisions to the CPS-SPA Protocol regarding the exercise of criminal jurisdiction in England and Wales

    … will be instructed to advise on and prosecute the case at court martial. We consider the instruction of counsel out of … and race. The entries relating to charges in the Court Martial results data should flag whether offences are … indirect, to either victims or accused. Concerns about the independence of proceedings being heard under Court Martial …

  9. Advocate Panels: 2020 Panel - General Crime and the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences List (RASSO List)

    … to and including a whole day’s list, straightforward Youth Court cases and to conduct simple mentions, guilty pleas, committals for sentence and appeals in the Crown Court. Applicants must provide evidence of up to date legal … of a prosecution team without compromising professional independence Familiarity with, and understanding of, the Code …

  10. CPS Hate Crime Newsletter 29, October 2021

    … 87.2% offenders had their sentences increased because the court agreed that the crime was a hate crime (up from 58.6% …   Pretty pleaded guilty at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court to one count of sending an obscene message by social … the proven racist hostility and this was accepted by the court. The uplift made it punishable by custody. Senior …

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