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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public ...
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 created the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1986, a dedicated, nationwide prosecution service under the control of the DPP, then Sir Thomas Hetherington QC. This involved the recruitment of 3,000 new staff, which despite difficulties the DPP succeeded in doing.
The CPS denied that Starmer was behind the decision, saying that it was the responsibility of a Crown Court and was out of Starmer's hands. [48] Later that year, Starmer published a plan for the criminal justice system to better handle cases of female genital mutilation ; at the time, the offence had never been successfully prosecuted. [ 49 ]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would present “relevant details of the defendant’s past” to the court on Thursday. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment.
Police investigating a funeral directors in Hull have passed a file containing more than 13,000 exhibits to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Officers removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes ...
Gill Petrovic, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said he was in a position of trust as a doctor and a "highly respected man" within the community who "abused his position to commit sexual ...
Nazir Afzal OBE (born 1 October 1962) [1] [2] [3] is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Afzal spent most of his career in the CPS, rising to be Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England in 2011, a role he held until leaving the CPS in 2015.
The Crown Prosecution Service said they believed there was a ‘realistic prospect of conviction ... A CPS spokesperson said: “We respect the decision of the court in this case. In accordance ...