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Welcome to the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site
This site provides an online resource to UK criminal solicitors and includes a forum area to discuss the ever changing world of criminal law, and criminal contracting.

There are several important features of this site that cannot be accessed unless you have registered as a member and logged in to the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net site:

  • Case Law Updater - the Case Law updater contains cases that the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net team consider to be important/relevant to criminal practitioners. The Case Law Updater does not contain every new case, but it does contain on cases that are of paramount importance.
  • Legislation Updater - the Legislation Updater covers legislation created since April 2004 that is relevant to criminal law and includes items such as Statutory Instruments, Bills and Acts. The Legislation Updater allows you to peruse relevant legislation with summaries and view the full content of the legislation as published on the Office of Public Sector Information web site.
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Why is this web site here?
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site was established to provide an open forum for users to discuss UK criminal law. There are several resources available to criminal solicitors on the internet but none were seen as being open or user friendly in the way that the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net portal is. Criminal Solicitor Dot Net is not affiliated with any professional organisation and has no agenda to serve - it exists as it does for the purpose of open discussion.

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The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site is run by Gavin Burrell with the assistance of two others. Gavin Burrell is a solicitor who works for a firm in Southend, Essex, practicing solely in criminal work.

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The portal is not operated for profit or gain and no membership fees/subscription fees are charged. The costs in operating this portal are generally absorbed by the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net team if income generated from advertising does not meet the hosting costs. The biggest cost in running the portal is time spent ensuring that up to date information is delivered to our registered users.

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The forums are particularly useful for discussing criminal law. Requests are often made for opinions on legal scenarios, and guidance given on new or established legislation. The forums are not to be used by people seeking legal advice on their own case.

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Criminal contracting is at the heart of many UK crime practices and the discussion forums allow our registered users to interact and discuss impending changes to criminal contracting.

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Case law
We provide a case law updater service. We endeavour to post updates to the web site on a daily basis. We report on case law that we believe to be of paramount importance to UK criminal law. We provide summaries for the cases in the updater and where judgments are freely available online for the cases a copy of the judgment also appears in the updater.

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We check legislation on a daily basis to ensure that our registered users are aware of new Acts, proposed Bills, Statutory Instruments and Draft Statutory Instruments. Without taking advantage of an updater service a criminal practitioner cannot expect to keep up to date with legislative changes. The legislative updater provides a summary of the important parts of that legislation and copies of the full text of the legislation in question.

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Remote RSS Feed Keir Starmer: assisted suicide guidlines... 23 September 2009 04:15 
The Director of Public Prosecutions today said new guidelines on assisted suicide would not have "too many hard edges". Keir Starmer QC will issue the directions this morning after a Law Lords ruling that the law be clarified. But speaking ahead of the release Mr Starmer said the rules will not be rigid, or attempt to give a definitive answer for every situation.
Remote RSS Feed Brown spares Baroness Scotland, but tell... 22 September 2009 02:52 
Gordon Brown today spared his Attorney-General the sack for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper, but ordered her to apologise "profusely" over the affair. Baroness Scotland of Asthal, the Government's top law officer, was fined £5,000 for breaching UK Border Agency rules on employing migrant workers after the agency found that she had employed a Tongan woman who did not have the right to work in the UK. Although Lady Scotland carried out the immigration status checks required by the Act, which she helped to pilot through Parliament, she failed to keep photocopies as proof that the checks had been made.
Remote RSS Feed Call to stop relaxation of assisted suic... 22 September 2009 01:23 
New advice for prosecutors, to be published on Wednesday, is expected to say that relatives of those who kill themselves will not be prosecuted as long as they do not “encourage” them and assist only a “clear and settled intention”. The new guidance was drawn up by the Crown Prosecution Service after Lord Phillips, with four other Law Lords, backed a call by Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis sufferer, for a policy statement from the CPS on assisted suicide at the end of July. However, lawyers from campaign group the Christian Legal Centre want the advice to be put on hold because of Lord Phillips’ personal sympathy those calling for the rules on assisted suicide to be realxed, which emerged weeks after the judgement was handed down.
Remote RSS Feed Rape victims treatment reviewed 22 September 2009 00:37 
A review of the treatment of rape victims by the police and other agencies in England and Wales has been ordered by ministers. It will look at how rape victims are treated from the moment they come into contact with the authorities. Ministers are concerned that the conviction rate remains low despite repeated attempts to improve it.
Remote RSS Feed Supreme Court will give a peep into the ... 21 September 2009 01:46 
It is a supreme irony that two of the first cases before the new Supreme Court will be veiled in secrecy — for its main selling point was that it would enable justice to be seen to be done. The highest court in the land will emerge from its hidden corridor in the recesses of the House of Lords and take its place in a newly refurbished building in Parliament Square full of plate glass to bring light on the proceedings. People will be able to find it and they will be able to watch the justices at work. As Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the court’s President, put it earlier this year: “The public will be welcomed and justice will be seen to be done very much more easily than it is at the moment.”
Remote RSS Feed Violent prisoners in line for compensati... 21 September 2009 01:37 
Hundreds of dangerous prisoners could be in line for compensation payouts after a top judge ruled delays in an arsonist's parole hearing violated his human rights. Arsonist Kevin Pennington's case uncovered the acute strain put on the creaking penal system by the ever-increasing number of high-risk prisoners serving open-ended sentences. And, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, Pennington persuaded the High Court that lack of resources was no excuse for an 'unlawful' delay in his Parole Board hearing.
Remote RSS Feed Drivers who challenge unfair convictions... 21 September 2009 01:35 
A Labour move to slash the legal costs that innocent motorists can reclaim after successfully challenging speeding and other motoring offences is attracting significant opposition on Downing Street's official website. Lawyers say the Government's controversial and 'perverse' cost-cutting measure, which comes into effect next month, will deter millions of innocent drivers from challenging cases in court - or leave them unfairly thousands of pounds out of pocket. The leading lawyer spearheading the campaign says the ministerial move is unfair and is aimed at penalising middle-class drivers and those of modest means - making justice the preserve of the rich.
Remote RSS Feed Police 'failing to record rape allegatio... 21 September 2009 01:32 
Some UK police forces fail to record more than four in 10 rape claims on official crime records, it was reported today. Figures obtained by the BBC, using Freedom of Information legislation, found wide regional variations. In Northumbria, 172 of a total 382 reports of rape (45 per cent) did not make it into official Home Office figures.
Remote RSS Feed Assisted suicide investigations will foc... 21 September 2009 00:54 
People who stand to benefit financially from a person’s death are likely to be the ones prosecuted for assisting a suicide, under guidelines to be issued this week. The law will remain unchanged but new rules will detail the factors that are likely to lead to a prosecution, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said yesterday. Keir Starmer, QC, drew them up after the law lords backed Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis sufferer who called for a policy statement on whether people who helped someone to kill themselves should be prosecuted. The policy, which will be issued on Wednesday, will aim to clarify when individuals are more likely to be prosecuted or more likely not to be, he said.
Remote RSS Feed Warning over driving fines plan 18 August 2009 01:31 
Plans to allow police to issue on-the-spot fines for careless driving would undermine justice, say magistrates. John Thornhill, chairman of the Magistrates' Association, said ruling driving careless was subjective. Police would be acting as jury and sentencer if they were allowed to impose the fines, he said.
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