Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)

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Ben Law eTMA 04 Two factors have to be considered by the Crown Prosecutor Services before they can decide on whether to pursue the case, firstly the ‘evidential test’ the CPS decided if there is sufficient to get a
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realistic chance of conviction, to ask ourselves how likely conviction is. The second is the ‘public interest test’ this takes into account the seriousness of the offence, the more serious the crime than more need there is for conviction in the interest of the public. In first scenario we have to ask ourselves; is the offence common in the area which crime it was committed? If so does an example need to be made of the defendant and also was the offence motivated by any form of discrimination and premeditated, which in this case when to look at it we ...

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