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  1. Disclosure Manual: Chapter 34 - Handling National Security Related Claims for Public Interest Immunity

    … for Public Interest Immunity Refreshed: 21 October 2021 | LegalGuidance Introduction This guidance is intended to assist in … and any interested departments. Liaison with the agency legal adviser As soon as it appears to the officer in charge …

  2. Help us to improve how we explain our work on domestic abuse

    … our people at the heart of everything we do by providing guidance to improve casework quality and standards and to … aim we have produced two documents:   1. Domestic Abuse LegalGuidance  This updated legalguidance reflects how we prosecute domestic abuse …

  3. Racist and Religious Hate Crime - Prosecution Guidance

    … Racist and Religious Hate Crime - Prosecution Guidance Updated: 3 March 2022 | LegalGuidance , Hate crime Introduction Referral of Racist … the Referral of Cases , and the Consents to Prosecute , legalguidance), the hate crime material on the Prosecution …

  4. New strangulation and suffocation laws will help protect victims

    … Abuse Act 2021 come into force. The CPS has published new legalguidance to assist lawyers considering criminal charges for these offences. The new legislation sets out the legal definition that a person commits an offence of …

  5. Violence Against Women and Girls

    … Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) reports Policy and guidance across all strands of VAWG Archived publications … victims will receive the same access to protection and legal redress and the gender of the perpetrator does not make … violence against women and girls. Available online in the LegalGuidance section on this site: Violence Against Women …

  6. Breast-ironing recognised as child cruelty and assault by CPS

    … prosecuted as a form of child abuse, the CPS says in new guidance published today . The harmful procedure – which … breastfeeding problems, and psychological trauma. Now CPS legalguidance makes clear to police and prosecutors that … justified for any reason. “The Crown Prosecution Service’s legalguidance on the matter is therefore very welcome. We …

  7. CPS statement on the judgment in the judicial review of the prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences

    … was that a change to CPS rape and serious sexual offences guidance amounted to an illegal change of approach to … convict the defendant of the charge alleged - and is the legal test every prosecutor has to follow when making a … and our increasingly digital society. “However, the legal test that guides every charging decision has not …

  8. Prosecution Guidance: Consultation Principles

    … Prosecution Guidance: Consultation Principles 23 October 2023 | … on the choices that are open to us within the existing legal framework. Public and targeted consultation We will … on the choices that are open to us within the existing legal framework. Public and targeted consultation We will …

  9. Prosecutors seek the public’s views on mercy killings and failed suicide pacts

    … Service (CPS) is seeking views on a proposed update to legalguidance on homicide, to assist prosecutors considering the … of compassion for the deceased. The proposed update to the legalguidance on murder and manslaughter does not …

  10. Policy guidance on the prosecution of crimes against older people

    … Policy guidance on the prosecution of crimes against older people 15 … The University of Sussex report into Hate Crime and the Legal Process recommended a ‘by reason of’ definition for … evidence of bias and discrimination’ [ Hate Crime and the Legal Process – Options for Law Reform, Walters, Wiedlitzka, …

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