England & Wales

I have been dealing with a job that's been going on for over a year now and I carried out a voluntary interview with the suspect at a Police Station. This person was charged in the end with 3 x Fraud offences. During the introduction I forgot to say 'you are entitled to free independent legal advice' but cautioned her and informed her that she wasn't under arrest and that she could leave at any time. Now the defendant is claiming I have not interviewed her properly as I did not inform her of her rights. I have been called to Court about it and I'm quite worried….. I don't want to lose the case because of this and I'm expecting a grilling from the defence. Whats the…

I understand that there used to be a specific offence that covered the defacement of a coin, but that it was part of the legislation that was repealed when the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 was introduced and as a result, it is no longer illegal to use one of the penny-pressing machines described here. However, do I commit an offence if I deface a coin and then pay for something with it? E.g. if I stamp "Prolixia" into a 2p piece and mix it in with other coins when paying in a shop. Making and passing a false instrument (e.g. a counterfeit coin) are offences under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act, but if I'm not defacing the coin so that it appears to be a diff…

I am doing some revision here and am completely stuck on what special considerations there are for cars and pedal cycles?

There is some debate as to whether a witness' phone should be seized when they film an incident, even if the witness offers to email it or to copy the file onto storage media. However, I believe that there are some human rights considerations in relation to the witness and their property if they are being cooperative and offering alternative means to share the footage. What's your views on the following scenarios: * What would happen if the footage was simply uploaded to YouTube? Would this footage be admissible in Court, even if there is not a witness 'exhibiting' it as their own evidence? Footage uploaded on to a website, one assumes, is then treated differently in te…

From what i know about condition of entry powers, an establishment can impose conditions on entry and if that condition isn't adhered to then entry simply isn't granted. This is how clubs are able to search people and their belongings before entry. What about conditions of exit? I know of a club which states that it is a condition of entry that customers can be searched on the way out of the club. I don't quite understand how this works because i don't see how this could be enforced. If the customer was to refuse being searched on the way out, there isn't anything that can be done. Can someone shed some light on this for me? In a nut shell, can you impose condition…

Hello, After having seen a number of the older police cars at an open day, I noticed each was displaying the "not in service" sign and it got me thinking. If police staff are driving a marked vehicle should they also be displaying a "not in service" sign? Is the marked vehicle an extension of the uniform / warrant and therefore those driving could be impersonating a police officer (section 90)? Alex

as a complete newbie where do people think its best to get a good additional grounding or comprehension of the statutes? Most of the common law stuff is basic as most can be covered by reading any case law and from training etc oath commonsense eg BOP as a newbie you often get looked on as an idiot when asking questions about what does something mean or where do you find that info. I dont want to just do as im told all the time just because thats "how it is" It would be nice to get some proper understanding as some of the statutes are a bloody hard read. thanks in advance

Friend rented a property from a private landlord with a tenancy agreement where she paid each month on the first the rent one month at a time in advance (calender month) just over £1200.00 per month for the property. Unknown to tenant the property is mortgaged to the bank and the landlord had secured a loan on the property which he had no repaid despite efforts to get him to repay the money by the bank which eventually resulted in a number of county court hearings where the eventual outcome resulted in December in a hearing where a date was set for the property to be taken possession of by the bailiffs in mid January. The landlord never told the tenant re the possession…

http://college.pressofficeadmin.com/component/content/article/45-press-releases/699 Would be interested to know if anyone has had any S5 POA arrests which they would not do again should the same incident arise after 1st February?

A scenario popped into my head when I read about a cyclist that was arrested under byelaws and he refused details. He refused to leave the Court cells and he refused to provide details throughout. The Court suggested that the matter should be dropped as he had spent a night in the cells and the prosecuting agency subsequently respected the Court's wishes, although they didn't have to. This has got me thinking. What happens when someone is put before a Court in relation to a summary offence that has no possible custodial sentence and the person refuses details? Is it simply the case that the matter must proceed there and the (I.e. a trial) or does the Court have a right t…

Hello all! A question myself and some colleagues have been pondering for some time. Quite often we'll be in Westminster station or similar and members of the public will come up and tell us about groups of street gamblers doing the find-the-ball/card trick, which as we all know is a big scam. I usually take a look, but they see us coming a mile off and vanish. Out of interest should I ever catch one in the act, what offences are these people actually committing? What are they getting arrested and charged with? I'd love to know!

I have just watched this video, and surprisingly I have to disagree totally with the way the Police and TV Licensing dealt with this. It's on video that the person has no TV Arial no Sky or Virgin. He explains to them that you can view live TV form his PC, As with any other TV, Laptop or Mobile phone. And as soon as they say that the TV licencing start to push for a fine and court appearance! The Officer threatens the male with arrest under section 24 Pace! when she knows nothing about the Tele communications Act! Is this really how easy it is for the BBC!!! to get a warrant, It's not even that easy for the Police. And Five Officers needed to attend really! I per…

I was just reading this on Wiki. 2011: Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: Around 5,000 Metropolitan Police officers were deployed to police the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011. In advance of the event, assistant commissioner Lynne Owens said: "People who want to come to London to peacefully protest can do that but they must remember that it is a day of national celebration". Approximately one hundred people were pre-emptively arrested in advance of the wedding and were detained without charge for the duration of the wedding, with the apparent aim of suppressing protest. Other protestors were arrested on the d…

A few of my friends are thinking of going down the beach to chill before A level exams start and having a small fire and just use it for marshmallows and other stuff like that, I just want to make sure that its legal before we do it. We just keep ourselves to ourselves so there's no threat of disturbing others. It's Aberavon beach in south wales so if any locals could help that would be great.

The following are posts by someone on a news forum about the 7 year old boy who died in Chertsey. Do they constitute an offence under the Communications Act. This is just a small selection of his usual posts along a similar nature. I bet social services are fully aware of this so-called family. Just more unwanted immigrants destroying the fabric of this once great country. Sounds like just another case of an immigrant trying to kill off his family. Of course, the media try and make it appear that it is somehow linked to the floods when it most probably isn't at all. Blacks and crime are one and the same thing. Even this area is infected with immigrant #$%$. I don't kno…