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New Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 in force

Legal Update

 The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 (SI 2025/909) come into force today, Monday 6 October 2025, replacing the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020. The new rules consolidate the rules made in 2020 with the nine sets of amendments made to those rules since then. 

Definition of age, juvenile and young person

Legal Q&A

 Please can you define and explain the terms age, juvenile and young person?

Ruling regarding a cell confession amounting to inadmissible fresh evidence

Case Law
 In the case of R v Calvert 2025, the conviction for murder was safe where it was not in the interests of justice to admit a retraction statement of a key witness to a cell confession as fresh evidence, when that witness was deemed to be manipulative, dishonest and inconsistent.

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