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

… the suspect is in custody using a PACE clock extension or warrant of further detention; the emergency charging decision … means “ an objective, impartial and reasonable jury, bench of magistrates or a judge hearing a case alone, … information outside the knowledge of magistrates, a judge, bench, or jury. It may be in the form of statements, reports, …