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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.
- Newsletter - web site members who opt to receive the weekly Criminal Solicitor Dot Net Newsletter receive by e-mail a newsletter containing legal news, contracting news, case law updates, and legislation updates. The newsletter contains links to reports and updates contained within the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site.
- Free CPD - The Solicitors Regulation Authority has approved the Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site to provide CPD credits through distance learning courses.
- Download Centre - this contains documents that are relevant to all areas of criminal practice and includes consultation documents and responses.
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The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net Team.
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.
Who runs the web site
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.
Who pays for the web site?
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.
Discussion forums
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site provides registered users the ability to read and post messages in the discussion forums. The forums are arranged in appropriate sections where a user can engage in discussion with other users about any given topic.
Criminal law
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.
Criminal contracting
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.
Updater
The Criminal Solicitor Dot Net web site provides an updater service to ensure that our registered users are informed of changes to case law and legislation. The updater service is split in to two areas.
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.
Legislation
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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| 12 March 2010 |
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Contracting News 12 March 2010 | By: Gavin |
 The Legal Services Commission has issued a press release stating that Ventura are to take over the role as the Defence Solicitor Call Centre provider from 1st April 2010:As you will know, the Defence Solicitor Call Centre (DSCC) contract is transferring to a new provider on 1 April 2010.We have been working hard with both the existing and the new provider to make sure that the transfer takes place as smoothly as possible. Ventura (the new provider) is on course .... | | | | | MoJ Makes Changes To CDS Remuneration |
Contracting News 09 March 2010 | By: Gavin |
 The Legal Services Commission has today issued a press release about changes to reduce payments for Police Station and Magistrates Courts fees:The Ministry of Justice has today given effect to changes to arrangements and levels of remuneration for Police Station and Committals work, following their consultation “Legal Aid: Funding Reforms”.The changes have been effected through amendments to the CDS Funding Orders, signed by Lord .... | | | |
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The killers of James Bulger should not have been prosecuted for his murder, the new Children’s Commissioner says today in a call for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 12 years old.
In an exclusive interview with The Times, Maggie Atkinson argues that children under the age of 12 should not be prosecuted for any crime.
Dr Atkinson, who was appointed by the Government last autumn, said that a civilised society should recognise that children who commit offences should be treated differently from adult criminals. |
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Men who have sex with women who are too drunk to consent should be charged with rape, a review for the Government will signal next week.
Even husbands or partners must have "clear consent" before having sexual intercourse or risk prosecution, according to Baroness Stern, who has headed a major inquiry in to how to improve rape convictions.
She has warned that women are not "fair game" and there are no "grey areas" over alcohol being a factor as to whether consent was gained or not. |
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Burglars are increasingly using break-ins to steal their victims' cars as well as household possessions, official figures have disclosed.
The number of burglaries where a car was also stolen rose by 23 per cent in a year, according to police records.
In 2008/09, police forces in England and Wales recorded 15,741 burglaries where a vehicle was also taken. The following year, the total was 19,401. |
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Drug barons and dealers should be given softer sentences because terms have been too long and not served as a deterrent, sentencing advisers to the Lord Chief Justice have said.
And addicts caught with even large quantities of heroin or cocaine should not receive more than a year in prison and could escape custody altogether, under proposals from the Sentencing Advisory Panel said.
The Panel said a Court of Appeal ruling in 1982 had effectively added an additional deterrent premium on drugs sentences when it said “. anything which the courts in this country can do by way of deterrent sentences on those found guilty of crimes involving class A drugs should be done” |
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Those who go armed or leave their victim particularly traumatised could also be handed a community order, according to the Sentencing Advisory Panel (SAP).
The announcement just a year after the Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, said courts must hand out tough jail terms for burglars because the home should be the "safest refuge".
Burglars will also be able to avoid custody just because they are drug addicts or alcoholics after the Panel repeated its advice that a community order may be more appropriate under such circumstances. |
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Britain’s leading criminal judges warn that a shake-up of sentencing guidelines could push prison overcrowding to crisis levels.
They fear that the Sentencing Council, which comes into force next month with the aim of bringing more consistency to courts, will not curb judges’ use of custody, as hoped, but actually increase it.
The Council of Circuit Judges, which represents 600 judges in England and Wales, told The Times that they would be left with no freedom to fit punishments to the specific circumstances of a case. They fear that cuts to rehabilitation programmes will leave judges with no option in some cases but to jail offenders. |
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Police are failing to visit tens of thousands of families whose lives are made a misery by louts, inspectors warned yesterday.
Chief Inspector of Constabulary Denis O'Connor added that half of forces may also fail to spot a Fiona Pilkington-style tragedy developing.
Miss Pilkington killed herself and her disabled daughter after a gang taunted them for ten years despite a series of desperate calls to the police. |
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Jack Straw’s frustrations with the running of the £2.1 billion a year legal aid scheme were laid bare this week along with the policy clashes that have led to the demise of the body in charge.
Condemning the inefficiencies of the Legal Services Commission (LSC), its overstaffing and overweening policy remit, the Justice Secretary told MPs: “One of my frustrations is, typically, getting at what precisely is going on with this arm’s-length body that has been pushing officials in my department away. That would have been OK if they had been running an efficient ship but I am afraid they had not.”
The LSC, Mr Straw added, had 60 officials working on policy. “That is not their job. The issue of policy is for the Ministry of Justice.” To have two sets of policy makers made negotiations very difficult because they were making policy as well as his department, he added. |
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It is almost 25 years since the Roskill Report published its radical recommendations for improving the way complex fraud, corruption and financial market crimes are tackled.
In that time the complexity of business transactions and the amount of activity in financial markets have both increased dramatically.
Yet the many institutions that investigate and prosecute these crimes, including the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the Office of Fair Trading, the Crown Prosecution Service (Fraud Prosecution Service and Revenue & Customs Division) and the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate, remain hamstrung by a haphazardly developed system of overlapping responsibilities, a dispersion of powers and unnecessary duplication of manpower and specialist resources. As if this weren’t enough, these agencies have to operate under differing statutory frameworks, further exacerbating the problems. |
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The cost of this reoffending to the economy is £10billion a year – or £400 for every household in the UK, the National Audit Office, which vets and monitors public spending, said.
Around 60,000 offenders a year are jailed for less than 12 months – mostly for theft and violent crime - costing £286million a year to keep them in prison, the NAO said.
In most cases they are given terms of less than less than six months which means in practice they are freed after serving a few weeks of their jail term, because they are automatically released after serving half their sentence. |
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