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The status of all files, unless otherwise stated, is Fully Open.

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• Investigation
  • Collecting witness evidence
    • Order of collecting evidence
    • Witness statements Status: Partially open
    • Questioning of suspects
    • Admissibility of confessions
    • Inferences from silence
  • Collecting physical evidence
    • Evidence that may assist your investigation
    • Obtaining evidence using section 20 powers
    • Preparing evidence for court
  • Expert evidence
    • The expert
    • Site visits
    • The report
    • At court
  • Status of workers
    • Contract of employment
    • Specific categories of workers
  • 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 HSWA s7
    • Proceeding against Crown employees
    • Proceedings against director, manager, secretary or other similar officer Status: Partially open
  • 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
• Pre-trial
  • Preparing the case
    • Drafting informations
    • Legal references
    • Sample informations
  • Pre-trial procedure
    • Criminal procedure rules 2005
    • Jurisdiction
    • Informations
    • Summons
    • Initial details of the prosecution case
    • Friskies schedules
    • Preparation for guilty plea in the magistrates court
  • Witnesses and statements
    • Written statements
    • Supplying statements to witnesses
    • Supplying statements to the defence
    • Attendance of witnesses
    • Formal admissions
    • Production of documents
    • Defendant's antecedents
  • Disclosure of unused material for investigations commenced on or after 4 April 2005
    • Key requirements of the CPIA
    • Investigations and major incidents
    • Approach to common categories of material
    • Preparing the schedules
    • Disclosure stages
• Court stage
  • Reporting and publicising proceedings
    • General principles
    • Publicity
    • Information which may be disclosed
    • Sensitive cases
    • Reporting committal proceedings
    • Contempt of court
    • Reporting and Publicity - Abuse of process at common law
    • European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) considerations
    • Reporting the trial
    • Defamation: libel and slander
    • Breach of confidence
    • Data protection
    • Reporting and publicity – Freedom of information
  • Magistrates
    • Court procedure
    • Mode of trial hearing
    • Discontinuing a prosecution
    • The hearing
    • Objections and adjournments
    • Contested cases - not guilty pleas
  • Rules of evidence
    • Trial process
    • Proving the offence
    • Key rules of evidence
  • Oral evidence in court
    • Witnesses giving evidence in court
    • Exclusion of evidence in court
    • Use of inadmissible confessions
  • 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
    • Rule against hearsay
    • Exceptions to the hearsay rule
  • 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
    • In magistrates' court
    • Abuse of process in the Crown Court
    • What to do if abuse is claimed
    • Recording decisions
  • 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
    • Committal proceedings
    • At the Crown Court
    • Committal for sentence
  • Appeals
    • Prosecution rights of appeal
    • Defence rights of appeal
    • Rights of appeal for both parties
    • Appeals to European courts
• Notices
  • 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
    • Employment tribunals - Jurisdiction of the tribunal
    • Notice of appeal
    • Preparation for the hearing
    • Employment tribunal hearings
    • Tribunal decision
    • Challenging tribunal decisions
  • Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (FEPA)
    • Powers under FEPA
    • Notices under FEPA
• Work-related deaths and inquests
  • Work-related deaths and inquests - Introduction
  • Investigation
  • Chronology of proceedings
  • The Coroner and HSE
• Legal liaison arrangements