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On 27 May 2016 the Public Accounts Committee reported on the efficiency of the criminal justice system. The Committee’s report describes the system as “bedevilled by long standing poor performance including delays and inefficiencies, and costs are being shunted from one part of the system to another”.

It concludes the system is not good enough at supporting victims and witnesses and timely access to justice is too dependent on where victims and witnesses live.

The Committee is concerned the Ministry of Justice “has been too slow to recognise where the system is under stress, and to take action to deal with it”.

Our team is well aware of the short-comings in the system but we will do all we can to help you avoid any of the problems set out by the Committee.

The full report can be found here:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmpubacc/72/7202.htm

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One of our prison law specialists Irene Tolley is pursuing appeals on behalf of two clients as a result of the recent Supreme Court decision of R v Jogee; Ruddock v The Queen [2016] UKSC 8 and [2016] UKPC 7 on joint enterprise. The link to the case can be found here https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2015-0015-judgment.pdf Should you wish to discuss such an appeal or any other aspect of prison law then please contact Irene at the Nottingham office on 0115 9599550.

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We represented a young man charged with assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty.

It was immediately obvious to us that the police officer had been well outside of his lawful powers when detaining our client in the street and holding him in the police car prior to arresting him. Our client was advised to plead not guilty on this basis and the case was listed for a trial. The court ordered written legal arguments before the trial and the CPS discontinued the case on receipt of our legal argument pointing out that it was the police officer who had acted unlawfully, not our client.

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