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  • Criminal Procedure Rules - new rules into force on April 5, 2010, revoke and consolidate the 2005 rules and amending instruments, and include new Parts on special measures, bad character, hearsay, and requests for preliminary rulings to the E.C.J., together with other amendments (digested in latest issue).

  • Coroners and Justice Act 2009 - new commencement order brings various provisions into force on and around February 1, 2010, including provisions relating to encouraging and assisting suicide and admissibility of evidence of previous complaints (digested in latest issue).

  • Terrorism - Supreme Court rules that it should not suspend the operation of its judgment last week quashing secondary legislation that enabled the financial assets or economic resources of persons connected with terrorism to be frozen (see latest issue).

  • Conditional cautioning code of practice - revised code brought into force on January 26, 2010: S.I. 2010 No. 133 (digested in latest issue).

  • Barrister CPD Paper 1 and Solicitor CPD Paper 4 now available online, to be completed by February 15, 2010.
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