{"id":1435,"date":"2010-02-24T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:03:21","slug":"new-code-for-crown-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"New Code for Crown Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1436\" style=\"width:85px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/CPS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/CPS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>CPS - New Code<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a clarified and updated edition of\u00a0 The Code for Crown Prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A clearer explanation of the public interest factors tending in favour of and against prosecution;<\/li>\n<li>A clearer explanation of how the public interest stage of the Full Code Test is applied;<\/li>\n<li>Prosecutors having a discretion to stop a prosecution in the public interest, in exceptional circumstances, before all of the evidence is available;<\/li>\n<li>A fuller section explaining the use of out-of-court disposals for both adults and youths;<\/li>\n<li>Prosecutors being able to conduct pre-trial witness interviews when it is needed to assess the reliability of a witness&#8217; evidence or better understand complex evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Code applies to all CPS prosecutors and police officers when making charging decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cps.gov.uk\/publications\/code_for_crown_prosecutors\/\">Code available here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPS &#8211; New Code Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a clarified and updated edition of\u00a0 The Code for Crown Prosecutors. Changes include: A clearer explanation of the public interest factors tending in favour of and against prosecution; A clearer explanation of how the public interest stage of the Full Code Test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}