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  1. Offences against the Person, incorporating the Charging Standard

    … 2022; 27 June 2022; 23 July 2024; 31 October 2024 | Legal Guidance , Violent crime Introduction Summary only offences … to prove the intention of the suspect, not what the victim’s response or the effect on them was – though this may … for Crown Prosecutors is a public document, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions that sets out the general …

  2. Mental Health: Victims and Witnesses

    … Witnesses 14 October 2019 Updated: 25 April 2023 | Legal Guidance Introduction The social model of disability … any offence aggravated by hostility based on the victim's disability or presumed disability Joint agency guidance on … Prosecutors should refer to the detailed guidance in the Director’sGuidance on Charging 6th Edition, Attorney …

  3. Thirty years of the CPS - Law Society Gazette article by Alison Saunders, DPP

    … For example, earlier this month the CPS published new guidance for prosecutors on the range of offences for which … pleased they are of such high quality. Alison Saunders is Director of Public Prosecutions CPS News Centre Find out what's new at the Crown Prosecution Service's digital News Centre. …

  4. Psychoactive Substances

    … Substances Updated: 9 November 2023; 27 March 2025 | Legal Guidance , Drug offences New Psychoactive Substances Public … Act 2016 - Offences Producing a psychoactive substance (s.4) Supply of a psychoactive substance and offering to … that testing; A statement from that laboratory's technical director setting out the conditions in which that testing is …

  5. CPS response to London North Area Inspection Programme Baseline Report, May 2022

    … Report, May 2022 06 May 2022 | Publication Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) have today … value added in pre-charge reviews through increased IQA’s and IQA dip sampling. With the inspection findings as a … a framework for assessing compliance with the Directors Guidance on disclosure. Checks are undertaken by legal …

  6. Independent Assessor of Complaints for the Crown Prosecution Service: Annual Report 2020-21

    … 28 May 2021 | Publication Contents Introduction The Year’s Highlights Caseload Comparisons and Performance Reasons for … at whether the CPS properly followed the Victims’ Code guidance on the services that must be provided to victims. … very pleased to hear this report is being shared with the Director of Public Prosecutions…In your email you have …

  7. Coronavirus: National restrictions on movement, gatherings and businesses (No.4 Regs), effective from 5 November 2020

    … Updated: 22 January 2021; Updated 22 June 2022 | Legal Guidance Summary Part 1 - Introduction (Regulations 1 - 4) … to justify the proceedings comes to the prosecutor's knowledge; and within 3 years of the date of the commission … for Crown Prosecutors is a public document, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions that sets out the general …

  8. Judicial Review of CPS Prosecuting Decisions (Appeals)

    … (Appeals) Revised 27 September 2019; 30 July 2024 | Legal Guidance Introduction The Approach of the Courts The ways in … for Judicial Review, free to challenge the prosecution's case in the usual way through the criminal court, arguing … 1 WLR 780, para 14(5) “very rarely” ( R (Bermingham) v. Director of the Serious Fraud Office  [2007] 2 WLR 635, para …

  9. Focus on fairness – prosecuting crime in a changing world: Speech by Max Hill KC, DPP, to the Howard League

    … a privilege – and overwhelmingly a pleasure – to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions. And tonight I am grateful to … county prosecutors and local firms of solicitors. That’s what was happening until the mid-1980s. That changed as a … proceed. For certain offences we also issue prosecution guidance, and we put that alongside the Code, to explain how …

  10. Prosecuting Welfare and Health Fraud Cases

    … Fraud Cases Guiudance reviewed September 2019 | Legal Guidance , Fraud and economic crime Mandatory Case Handling … of benefit was made Doubtful disability cases – defendant’s condition remains Defence claim the Department sanctioned … of State to disclose social security information to the Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP) for the purpose of the …

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