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  • Barrister CPD Paper 2 and Solicitor CPD Paper 5 now available online, to be completed by March 8, 2010.

  • Policing and Crime Act 2009 - new commencement order brings various provisions into force including, on April 1, 2010, various provisions relating to sexual offences and sex offenders (digested in latest issue).

  • Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - three new S.I.s (i) bring two codes of practice into force on covert human intelligence sources and covert surveillance, and (ii) designate directed surveillance of legal consultations on specified premises (e.g. prisons, police stations) as intrusive surveillance.

  • Prosecution appeals against terminating rulings - (i) whether duty of prosecution to inform court that they agree that an accused should be acquitted if leave to appeal is not obtained or an appeal is abandoned is a mandatory requirement (CJA 2003, s.58(8)); (ii) obiter guidance on the application of subs. (4).

  • Confiscation orders - two cases from the Court of Appeal on the correct application of provisions relating to the postponement of confiscation proceedings (see latest issue).
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