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A Guide to the Role of Special Advocates & The Special Advocates' Support Office
Guidelines on the prosecutor’s role in applications for Witness Anonymity Orders: Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008.
The responsibilities of prosecutors where a suspect’s conduct could be dealt with in different ways and by different organisations.
Document defining the relationship between the Law Officers and the Crown Prosecution Service
Document defining the relationship between the Law Officers and the Service Prosecuting Authority
Murray Hunt has been engaged by Attorney General’s Office to provide legal and policy advice on matters relating to the rule of law.
Amended code on the use of investigation powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002.
Guidance for departments and civil servants on the Provision of Information by government departments in criminal investigations and prosecutions.
Review of possible miscarriages of justice.
Guidelines for civil panel counsel, revised to include the new government security classifications.
Investigation powers under Proceeds of Crime Act: search and seizure warrants, disclosure, account monitoring and other orders.
Amended Code of Practice issued under Section 377A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, which came into force on 26 April 2024.
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) has been amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) has been amended by the Serious Crime Act 2015
Consultation on revisions to the Attorney General’s Guidelines on Disclosure and the CPIA Code of Practice: call for evidence.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
A revised draft of the Attorney General’s Code of Practice issued under Section 377A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was laid in Parliament on 22 January 2024.
Document defining the relationship between the Law Officers and Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service
The Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC MP, has today published the Government’s Review of the efficiency and effectiveness of disclosure in the criminal justice system
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Guide for barristers asking the Law Officers for permission to join the Bar of Northern Ireland or the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland.
Disclosure in criminal cases is the process to make sure that investigators and prosecutors provide defendants with information obtained during…
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