Musings and Snippets from a recently retired JP. I served for 31 years, mostly in west London. I was Chairman of my Bench for some years, and a member of the National Bench Chairmen's Forum All cases are based on real ones, but anonymised and composited. All opinions are those of one or more individuals. JPs swear to enforce the law of the land, whether or not they approve of it. Nothing on here constitutes legal advice.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
New Code
Thanks to Crime Line for pointing us to the new Code for Crown Prosecutors. It's important to be able to understand the CPS' reasoning processes.
"proportionality ...... intended to avoid bringing into the system cases in which criminality could be better addressed by other, more appropriate means."
Fine, but how on earth are these 'other more appropriate means' to be enforced without a conviction?
Posts are pre-moderated. Please bear with us if this takes a little time, but the number of bores and obsessives was getting out of hand, as were the fake comments advertising rubbish.
Well lets hope it has some effect on some of the more mindless and hopeless prosecutions one sees from time to time.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but what actual change does this represent ?
ReplyDeleteI would say 'proportionality' is quite a big change.
ReplyDelete"proportionality ...... intended to avoid bringing into the system cases in which criminality could be better addressed by other, more appropriate means."
ReplyDeleteFine, but how on earth are these 'other more appropriate means' to be enforced without a conviction?