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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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Good Character as Mitigation
What is good character? As far as the criminal courts are concerned, a person of good character is usually someone ...
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Deaf Jurors
At the moment, profoundly deaf people rarely sit as jurors. There are strict laws that prevent anyone other than the ...
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Cutting Crime and Building Safer Communities?
The government has announced that there will be new legislation designed to cut “crime and build safer communities”. The Police, Crime, ...
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Criminal Cases Review Commission – Improvement Needed?
The Criminal Cases Review Commission began its work on 31 March 1997. It was created by the Criminal Appeal Act ...
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‘Complex Casework’ – Inside The Crown Prosecution Service
More prosecution casework is carried out locally by prosecutors based in regional hubs. For some cases, the position is entirely different, ...
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Police Stop & Search – Time to Rethink?
Police forces must explain the disproportionate use of police powers such as stop and search and use of force on ...
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Court of Appeal Refuses to Correct Early Release Injustice
On 1 April 2020, The Release of Prisoners (Alteration of Relevant Proportion of Sentence) Order 2020 came into force. This statutory ...
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Drugs & Sentencing – Is Cash Relevant?
In the case of Mahmood [2019] EWCA Crim 1532, the court dealt with the relevance of cash when determining which ...
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Sentencing And The Issue of ‘Psychological Harm’
A number of the definitive guidelines published by the Sentencing Council direct sentencers to consider whether the victim of an ...
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Parole Board Hearings – Public Scrutiny
Currently, all parole hearings are held in private – this is set out in legislation in the Parole Board Rules ...
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BBC in the Dock
The British Broadcasting Corporation ('BBC') found itself in the embarrassing position of being fined £28,000 this week after admitting being ...
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Interpretation of Ano-Genital Findings
Ano-genital findings, namely signs of injury or other non-natural interference, often form part of child abuse prosecutions. In recent years ...
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Sentencing for Drugs Offences
New sentencing guidelines for some drugs offences will come in to force on 1 April 2021 and will apply to ...
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