All Legal updates articles – Page 18
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Specimens, sentencing, terrorism, enforcement
Evidence Miller v DPP 2018 EWHC 262 (Admin) emphasises the importance of appropriate adults at the police station in relation to those with mental health disabilities and provides a welcome example of s78 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) being used to exclude all evidence obtained in breach of ...
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Protecting the vulnerable
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children or adults at risk and protect them from harm.
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QOCS transitional provisions
Important questions concerning the interpretation and application of the provisions under the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime (CPR 44.130-44.17) came before the Court of Appeal in Jacob Corstorphine v Liverpool City Council [2018] EWCA Civ 270 (Sir Geoffrey Vos PQBD and Hamblen LJ).