On Friday 17 March 2017 at the Liverpool Crown Court the CPS formally offered no evidence against Lee Battle, a Liverpool-based businessman and entrepreneur represented by Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Ware, in a case of alleged involvement in a conspiracy to supply heroin. The decision of the Crown comes just weeks after the acquittal […]
Section 178 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 inserts a new subsection into section 48 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which defines state detention, adding the following: (2A) But a person is not in state detention at any time when he or she is deprived of liberty under section 4 or 4B […]
GMC v Dr AM Marios Lambis advised and represented a senior occupational health practitioner who had been prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service in the Crown Court for fraud in respect of what he had charged a large UK multinational company. The General Medical Council relied on the Crown Court transcripts as well as on […]
Today, following a lengthy consultation, the Sentencing Council has published its Definitive Guideline on Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea, which comes into force for all cases where the first hearing is on or after 1st June 2017. As anticipated the one third reduction should now only be given when a defendant indicates a […]