Plan to ban prosecutions on Troubles is rejected by all five main Northern Ireland parties By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:06 BST, 17 July 2021 | Updated: 01:06 BST, 17 July 2021 Proposals to ban Troubles prosecutions were yesterday rejected by all five of Northern Ireland’s main parties. Leaders from across the province’s political divide condemned … Read more
Anti-violence against women campaigners have today lost a legal challenge against the CPS over claims of a change in policy on prosecuting alleged rapes and other serious sexual offences. The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) argued the CPS had ditched its ‘merits-based’ policy to prosecuting serious sexual offences and had instead adopted a more … Read more
Criminal prosecutions in England and Wales plunge by almost 60% in the three months to June due to Covid pandemic Latest data from Ministry of Justice shows impact of pandemic on justice system Prosecutions fell by 58% while convictions plummeted by 59% since January The Government says the situation has vastly improved in recent months … Read more
Delays in cases coming to court are ‘corrosive’ as they force victims to wait for justice, director of public prosecutions Max Hill warns Max Hill said remote hearings should take place to tackle the growing backlog Courts in England and Wales are grappling with a waiting list of around half a million cases Delays were … Read more
Downing Street denies Boris Johnson is planning to set targets for police in bid to boost the number of rape prosecutions A review of the criminal justice response to rape will be released in the autumn Figures showed rape convictions in England and Wales fell by a quarter in a year Mr Johnson said quotas … Read more
Boris Johnson plans to set targets for police in bid to increase number of rape case prosecutions Police could be set targets for number of rape cases they refer to prosecutors CPS may be given quotas for how many suspects they take to court Rape prosecutions have fallen to their lowest level since records … Read more
Post Office bosses should face criminal prosecutions over an IT scandal branded the ‘biggest miscarriage of justice in our history’, MPs demanded yesterday. Up to 960 postmasters were wrongfully convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting after cash appeared to vanish from their tills. But it later emerged that shortfalls in the accounts of local … Read more