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What happens if you're charged with a crime. Find out about the hearing, when you can be released on bail and being put in custody (on remand).
If you’re charged with a crime you’ll be given a ‘charge sheet’. This sets…
When you’re waiting for a court hearing or a trial, you might be given…
If the court decides to put you on remand it means you’ll go to prison…
Self-report a company or partnership that did not prevent the facilitation of tax evasion if you’re their authorised representative.
SIA regulation: how the SIA enforces the law and what the penalties are for breaking it.
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old. Children are treated differently from adults, are dealt with by youth courts and sent to special secure centres for young people.
Information relating to the Criminal Justice Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 14 November 2023.
The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.
What happens if you're given a community sentence or community service. Find out about Community Payback and the rules of your community sentence.
Statutory Instruments that relate to the Criminal Procedure Rules.
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
Plans have been submitted to modernise the identification doctrine, a legal principle which can hold corporations criminally liable for an offence.
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