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• Enforcement policy statement
• Enforcement concordat [PDF 429KB] 
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Section 3
• Working with victims policy
• Legal liaison arrangements

Collecting Witness Evidence

• Introduction to collecting witness evidence
• Order of collecting evidence
• Witness statements Status Partially Open
• Questioning of suspects
• Amissibility of confessions
• Inferences from silence

Collecting Physical Evidence

• Introduction to collecting physical evidence
• Evidence that may assist your investigation
• Obtaining evidence using section 20 powers
• Preparing evidence for court

Expert Evidence

• Introduction to expert evidence
• The expert
• Site visits
• The report
• At court

Status of Workers

• Introduction to status of workers
• Contract of employment
• Specific categories of workers

Identifying the Defendant

• Introduction to identifying the defendant
• Partnerships
• Companies
• Joint ventures
• Limited liability partnerships
• Other defendants
• Prosecution of foreign defendants Status Partially Open
• Insolvency
• Prosecution of individuals
• Proceeding against employees
• Proceeding against crown employees
• Proceeding against directors etc. Status Partially Open

Approving Prosecutions

• Introduction to approving prosecutions
• The prosecution report
• Approval of a proposed prosecution
• Evidential stage
• Public interest stage
• Selection of charges and mode of trial
• Cautions
• Enforcement against crown bodies
• Recording reasons

Preparing the case

• Introduction to preparing the case
• Drafting informations
• Legal references
• Sample informations

Pre-trial Procedure

• Introduction to pre-trial procedure
• Criminal procedure rules 2005
• Jurisdiction
• Informations
• The summons
• Advance information
• Friskies schedules
• Preparation for guilty plea

Witnesses and Statements

• Introduction to witnesses and statements
• Written statements
• Supplying statements to witnesses
• Supplying statements to the defence
• Attendance of witnesses
• Formal admissions
• Production of documents
• Defendants antecedents

Disclosure of Unused Material for Investigations Commenced before 4 April 2005

• Introduction to disclosure of unused material for investigations commenced before 4 April 2005
• Key requirements
• Investigations and major incidents
• Approach to common categories of material
• Preparing the schedules
• Disclosure stages
• Additional guidance in the guidelines
• Giving reasons

Disclosure of Unused Material for Investigations Commenced on or after 4 April 2005

• Introduction to disclosure of unused material for investigations commenced on or after 4 April 2005
• Key requirements
• Investigations and major incidents
• Approach to common categories of material
• Preparing the schedules
• Disclosure stages
• Additional guidance in the guidelines
• Giving reasons

Reporting and Publicising Proceedings

• Introduction to reporting and publicising proceedings
• General principles
• Publicising proceedings
• Information which may be disclosed
• Sensitive cases
• Reporting committal proceedings
• Contempt of court
• Abuse of process at common law
• ECHR considerations
• Reporting the trial
• Defamation - Libel and slander
• Breach of confidence
• Data protection
• Freedom of information

Magistrates' Court

• Introduction to magistrates' court
• Magistrates' court procedure
• Mode of trial hearing
• Discontinuing a prosecution
• The hearing
• Objections and adjournments
• Contested cases

Rules of Evidence

• Introduction to rules of evidence
• Trial process
• Proving the offence
• Key rules of evidence

Oral Evidence in Court

• Introduction to oral evidence in court
• Witnesses giving evidence in court
• Exclusion of evidence at court
• Use of inadmissible confessions

Physical Evidence in Court

• Introduction to physical evidence in court
• Exhibiting evidence
• Public documents
• Proof of convictions
• Sound and videotape recordings
• Photographs, sketches and models
• Maps and plans
• Real evidence (material objects)
• Computer evidence
• Expert reports
• Depositions
• Written witness statements
• Records required by statutory provisions
• Continuity

Hearsay

• Introduction to hearsay
• Rule against hearsay
• Exceptions to the hearsay rule

Abuse of Process

• Introduction to abuse of process
• What is abuse of process
• Delay
• Double jeopardy
• Breach of promise
• Loss of evidence / Failure to disclose unused material
• Investigative impropriety
• Pre-trial publicity
• Abuse of process in magistrates' court
• Abuse of process in the crown court
• What to do if an abuse is claimed
• Recording decisions

Sentencing and Costs

• Introduction to sentencing and costs
• General principles
• Factors relevant to sentencing
• Preparing for sentencing hearings
• The sentencing hearing
• Imposing the sentence
• Penalties
• Costs
• Model examples

Crown Court

• Introduction to crown court
• Committal proceedings
• At the crown court
• Committal for sentence

Appeals

• Introduction to appeals
• Prosecution rights of appeal
• Defence rights of appeal
• Rights of appeal for both parties
• Appeal to european courts

Improvement and Prohibition Notices

• Introduction to improvement and prohibition notices
• Conditions for a valid notice
• Types of notice
• Drafting notices Status Partially Open
• Service of notices
• Failure to comply

Employment Tribunals

• Introduction to employment tribunals
• Jurisdiction of the tribunal
• Notice of appeal Status Partially Open
• Preparation for the hearing
• Employment tribunal hearings
• Tribunal decision
• Challenging tribunal decisions

Food and Environment Protection Act

• Background 
• Powers under FEPA
• Notices under FEPA

• Introduction to work related deaths and inquests
• Investigation
• Chronology of proceedings
• The coroner and HSE