Briefing: Discontinuance and Victims Right to Review (Amendment 49)
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It details calls by the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Claire Waxman OBE, for enabling the CPS to end proceedings at a later point, allowing for a case to be reinstated where a Victims Right to Review concludes that the prosecution was ended in error.
This document sets out proposals for an amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill to give the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) the power to discontinue proceedings in the Crown Court.