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15 February 2008
Issue: 7308 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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CRIMINAL LITIGATION

R (on the application of Torres) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2007] EWHC 3212 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 234 (Dec)

Although s 37 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 applies when a suspect returns to the police station to answer his bail, it also applies to every single occasion when a person under actual or deemed arrest is produced to a custody officer, including the occasion when he is first arrested.

 

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NEWS
Lawyers have welcomed the Lord Chancellor’s reverse-ferret on jury reforms, but expressed ‘serious concerns’ about the decision to exclude fraud trials
From ‘rats in the robing room’ to ‘overworked’ judges and a shortage of court staff, barristers have aired their concerns about the state of the justice system
The use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) poses ‘significant risks’ across the justice system, public services and government, and current regulation is ‘poorly suited’ to control it, experts have warned
The solicitors’ regulator has paused controversial plans to exclude owner-managers from compliance officer roles
The government has launched a £16m legal support grant to support 48 frontline legal advice organisations supporting people facing eviction, problem debt, benefit disputes and family breakdown
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