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: 01:19 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
Minister slams foot-dragging over law to protect Troubles veterans from historic prosecutions Johnny Mercer openly criticised the Government’s ‘pace of progress’ over promised legislation to protect soldiers who served in Northern Ireland Veterans are unhappy with ministers’ failure to fulfil Tory manifesto pledge to protect them from ‘vexatious’ historical prosecutions Soldiers fear being hauled to … 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 on prosecuting serious sexual offences between 2016 and 2018 and … Read more
The public are to be cleared from courtrooms when complainants give evidence in rape cases under new plans to boost prosecution rates in sexual assault cases. The move, which judges will be advised to consider, is intended to reduce the trauma complainants face having to recount their abuse when giving evidence. It was recommended by … Read more
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has hinted that the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales may need raising above 10, amid fears that too many children are being tried as adults. Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill QC expressed concerns over the existing law in a podcast in which a … Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility Friday of criminal prosecutions of Republican lawmakers if they are found to have provided Capitol tours to people who took part in the Capitol riots. Speaking to reporters a week after a MAGA mob ransacked the Capitol and days after the House voted to impeach President Trump, the … 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
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