Victims of modern slavery will be identified earlier in criminal investigations - saving them from being wrongly prosecuted – as prosecutors reinforce best working practices in new legal guidance published today.

Dozens of legal hopefuls from Liverpool and Manchester have started a scheme relaunched today in Liverpool aimed at encouraging people of different walks of life into law.

Prosecutor Julius Capon discussed issues faced by lawyers within London’s busy homicide unit when he met with students at Haringey Sixth Form College.

A man has been jailed for raping a woman who had been out on a night out with friends on Merseyside.

A convenience store manager has been jailed for driving at speeds of up to 130mph in Cheshire.

The Crown Prosecution Service has today published its prosecution data covering the first quarter of 2021/22.

The cumulative findings of the CPS review for completed prosecutions between March 2020 and August 2021 under the Coronavirus Act and Health Protection Regulations are detailed in the table below.

Strengthening links with different communities is central to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) vision outlined today in an aspirational plan to encourage more engagement and trust with diverse groups.

A man has been sentenced for racially abusing an eleven-year-old boy in Crewe.

A carer who sexually assaulted a young woman in a residential care facility while she was having a series of epileptic seizures has been jailed for six years.