This Fees Bulletin outlines changes to the CPS fee arrangements relating to Unduly Lenient Sentence referrals, which will come into effect on 2 May 2023.

His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (10 November 2022) issued a report following its inspection of CPS Thames and Chiltern.

An 81-year-old child abuser who escaped justice by fleeing to Thailand in 1997 ahead of his trial has today been jailed for 46 years for a catalogue of horrific sex offences against 24 boys in his care from the late 60s to the mid-90s.

A man has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment after stabbing a man who was protecting his girlfriend after she was punched in the face in a street attack.

An organised crime group who operated a brothel out of an address in Portsmouth, have been convicted.

Kenneth Law has today pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding and abetting suicide. Every victim in England and Wales who died as a result of using products supplied to them by Law has now been formally recognised as part of the Canadian proceedings today.

Facility time is the provision of paid or unpaid time off from an employee’s normal role to undertake Trade Union (TU) duties and activities as a TU representative.

General Instructions to Crown Prosecution Service Associate Prosecutors, pursuant to Section 7A(3) and (4) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985