Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today [23 October 2018] issued a report following its inspection of the performance of CPS London North. This is the CPS response.
This is the tenth 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.
Inspectors from HM CPS Inspectorate and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services analysed the handling of disability hate crime cases by the police and CPS.
This is the CPS response to the report.
This Legal Guidance identifies potential offences for prosecutors to consider when dealing with “obscene publications”, before focusing on the Obscene Publications Act 1959 itself. It provides guidance on the provisions in general and in particular how prosecutors should approach the question of “obscenity”.
In January 2018 the CPS, National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing released the Joint National Disclosure Improvement Plan. The plan sets out the actions that we are taking, and will take, to improve how the criminal justice system deals with disclosure.
Agreed between the CPS and the NPCC, this protocol outlines the procedures and guidance that should be followed in investigating and prosecuting alleged cases of so-called ‘Honour-Based’ Violence/Abuse.
