‘Crown Prosecution Service claims there is “significant public interest” in prosecuting men arrested for taking discarded food.’
The Guardian, 28th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Rosie-Ann Stone is cleared of causing the death of her sister Jennie by careless driving in an accident months after their brother, Private Gregg Stone, was killed in Afghanistan.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence in a case of alleged conspiracy to supply class A drugs after the judge refused a prosecution application to adduce new evidence on the second day of the trial.’
Law Society’s Gazette. 14th January 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A violent rapist has been jailed for life after a landmark legal ruling in which his original acquittal for the offence was quashed by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In a press conference, Mitchell condemned the police for failing to arrest Rowland or to interview him under caution, and attacked the Crown Prosecution Service for failing to get to the bottom of what had happened.’
The Guardian, 26th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘CPS decisions in Operation Alice – incident at Downing Street on 19 September 2012.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th November 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Victims will be provided with better explanations of how their cases are being handled in order to boost public confidence in the criminal justice system, the new director of public prosecutions (DPP) has pledged.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The jury that will decide the guilt or innocence of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six other defendants was sworn in at the Old Bailey with a warning from the judge that ‘British justice is on trial’.”
The Independent, 30th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Fall in number of rape cases police refer to prosecutors raises fears under-pressure officers are ‘cutting corners’ and not taking victims seriously”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Scotland Yard is facing fresh embarrassment after a citizen won the right to launch what is thought to be an unprecedented private prosecution of a police employee for perverting the course of justice.”
The Independent, 18th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior prosecutor has launched a robust defence of journalists who break the law pursuing investigations that have a genuine public interest. Legal guidelines had been drafted, he said, to protect reporters.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has published detailed guidance on how to handle sex abuse allegations. It comes down to is a simple shift in thinking that can make a profound difference: Trust, rather than doubt, what the victim is saying.”
BBC News, 17th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted publishing misleading records of complaints made about its performance.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior prosecutor said he understands concerns surrounding the time it has taken to investigate police officers over the Plebgate saga, which cost Tory MP Andrew Mitchell his cabinet post.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of sexual offences have been afraid of reporting them because police have asked ‘the wrong questions’, the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales has said.”
BBC News, 13th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Repealing the Human Rights Act would be ‘retrograde step’ that would hurt the victims of crime and witnesses alike, the outgoing director of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has warned.”
The Independent, 13th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“In early 2012, the Daily Telegraph carried out an undercover investigation at various abortion clinics in England. As a result, a police investigation was conducted and, in due course, the police asked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for advice about possible criminal charges. This note relates to the decision to take no further action in relation to two doctors: Dr S and Dr R.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 7th October 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“As the lecturer disarmingly tells us at the outset of the Hamlyn Lectures for 2012, the illustrious procession of Hamlyn lecturers since 1949 (Lord Denning) through to 2011 (Jeremy Waldron) has ‘without exception’ comprised ‘lawyers distinguished by their practice, their academic study or both’. Jack Straw is an exception. Since an LLB at Leeds and two years at the criminal bar, he has made his career in politics – holding glittering ministerial office, throughout the Blair-Brown years, as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, leader of the Commons, and Lord Chancellor.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 7th October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Motorists who repeatedly steal petrol by filling up and then claiming to have forgotten their wallets will no longer be able to escape criminal prosecution, after new guidance was issued to police forces.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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