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Rape Review
The Government's End-to-End Review of the Criminal Justice System Response began in 2019. The purpose was to look at evidence ...
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Unlawful Importation of Firearms Offences
A new draft sentencing guideline for the offence of importing prohibited or restricted firearms has been published for consultation. There ...
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Detention of Seized Cash
HMRC seized £35,000 cash in plastic carrier bags from a Mr Mann as it was suspected he was fraudulently evading ...
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Holocaust Denial
In Israel and some 16 European countries, there is a specific offence of Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial is denying that ...
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Stalking and Stalking Protection Orders
A former premier league footballer, Shayne Bradley, pleaded guilty to stalking a former girlfriend. It was said he followed her, ...
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Hillsborough Prosecutions
Alan Foster, Donald Denton and Peter Metcalf were charged with perverting the course of justice, accused of altering the statements ...
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Assault Sentencing Guidelines
The existing assault guidelines came into effect in January 2012; at the same time, the attempt murder guideline was revised ...
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Harbouring an Escapee
Sometimes you can commit an offence without doing very much at all. Harbouring an escapee is one of those offences ...
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Coercive and Controlling Behaviour
The offence of controlling and coercive behaviour has been on the statute books for a few years now but has ...
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Child Sexual Offences
Draft revised sentencing guidelines have been produced to reflect recent Court of Appeal judgments. The guidelines clarify sentencing guidance for ...
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Life Sentences with Further Orders
A recent Court of Appeal case has ruled on the appropriateness of protective orders when a life sentence is in ...
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Deletion of Police Records
In 2006 the Association of Chief Police Officers, known as ACPO, founded a Criminal Records Office, now known as ACRO ...
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Women on Short-Term Sentences
An evidence-based practice team from HM Prison and Probation Services have produced a report entitled "An evaluation of a brief ...
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Prison Categorisation
Every prisoner is given a security category. For female prisoners, there are only two options, closed or open condition. For ...
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Prison Visits
During the Covid pandemic, there have been significant limits and halts to prison visits. Once we are out of lockdown, ...
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Sexual Abuse in Schools
Ofsted has announced a review into sexual abuse in schools. The review will consider the processes that schools, and colleges ...
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Non-Disclosure and Prejudice
The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred several cases to the Court of Appeal, which involved allegations of public order related ...
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Bite Mark Evidence – Part Two
"Why Bite Mark Evidence Should Never Be used in Criminal Trials" is a report published by the Innocence Project. They ...
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Bite Mark Evidence – Part One
What is bite mark evidence? A bite mark is a pattern produced by the indentations of the teeth into any ...
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New Proposals
The government recently announced a range of proposals regarding immigration, but how does this affect criminal law?Priti Patel, the Home ...
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