“The Crown Prosecution Service has defended a decision to prosecute a Neath teacher after a boy accused her of hitting him with a glue stick.”
BBC News, 20th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The power to decide whether a suspect is charged in hundreds of thousands of cases a year is to be restored to the police, the new home secretary, Theresa May, will announce tomorrow.”
The Guardian, 19th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Portia Ragnauth, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Surrey Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described the first trial without a jury in England and Wales as a ‘benchmark prosecution’ after four men were found guilty today over the 2004 armed robbery of the Menzies World Cargo depot at Heathrow Airport.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 31st March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A letter signed by politicians, campaigners, lawyers and academics has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, criticising the ‘intolerable’ delays in the investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“CPS announces charging decision in the Milly Dowler case.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 30th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Scotland Yard passed a new file of evidence against a Parliamentarian suspected of abusing expenses to prosecutors today.”
The Independent, 30th March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to proceed with the retrial of Wahleed Hussain, who stood trial last year alongside his uncles for an attack on burglar Walid Salem near their home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 29th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The widow of Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at the G20 protests, has launched an emotional attack on the director of public prosecutions, accusing him of letting her down over his failure to decide whether the officer who assaulted her husband should be charged with manslaughter.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that, while there is sufficient evidence to charge Caractacus Downes with an offence of assisting the suicide of his parents, Sir Edward and Lady Joan Downes, it is not in the public interest to do so.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 19th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A decision not to bring charges over the fatal shooting of a police officer during a firearms training exercise is be re-examined by prosecutors.”
BBC News, 26th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Today, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, issued the first set of Core Quality Standards for the Crown Prosecution Service.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 25th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The Crown Prospection Service should do more to help disabled victims of hate crime, an official has admitted.”
BBC News, 22nd March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The new head of the Crown Prosecution Service in London has set in place plans to improve the service CPS London provides to victims and witnesses in the capital.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 16th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, today announced that there will be no charges in relation to Baroness Uddin’s claims for parliamentary expenses.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 12th March 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Criminals are escaping justice because of a lack of organisation within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), a judge said.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tidying things up can make them worse. That is the worry about Keir Starmer’s valiant attempt yesterday to clarify the law on assisted suicide. The Director of Public Prosecutions had no choice, of course. His hand was forced by the House of Lords, following Debbie Purdy’s historic legal victory in winning the right to determine the timing and manner of her own death.”
The Independent, 26th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Parts of the Crown Prosecution Service in London are in ‘meltdown’ with criminals being handed ‘get out of jail free cards’ while ‘open and shut’ cases are being thrown out of court, a memo seen by The Independent claims.”
The Independent, 23rd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, today issued a clarified and updated edition of The Code for Crown Prosecutors (the Code).”
Crown Prosecution Service, 22nd February 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Full guidance on when prosecutions should be brought for assisting suicide will be published next week, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.”
The Independent, 17th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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