Home Affairs - Second Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 November 2002.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
The conduct of our inquiry
PART: AMENDMENTS TO PACE
Background to PACE and the PACE review
The proposed amendments to PACE
Detention time limits
Future revision of the PACE Codes of Practice
PARTS 2 AND 4: BAIL AND CHARGING
Class A drug-users (Clause 16)
Conditions on bail before charge (Clause
23 & Schedule 2)
Safeguards
PART 5: DISCLOSURE
The Criminal Procedure and Investigations
Act 1996
Test for prosecution disclosure (Clause 27)
Disclosure of the defendant's witnesses
(Clause 29)
Advance notice of (unused) experts (Clause
30)
PART 7: TRIALS ON INDICTMENT WITHOUT A JURY
Trial by judge alone: complex and lengthy
trials (Clause 37)
Trial by judge alone: defendant's application
(Clause 36)
Trial by judge alone: jury tampering (Clauses
38 & 40)
PART 10: DOUBLE JEOPARDY
PART 11, CHAPTER 1: EVIDENCE OF BAD CHARACTER
The dangers of admitting evidence
of bad character
Defendant's bad character (Clause 84)
Defendant's propensity for misconduct
The test of relevance
PART 11, CHAPTER 2: HEARSAY EVIDENCE
PART 12, Clauses 137-138: MAGISTRATES' SENTENCING
POWERS
Increase in sentencing powers (Clauses
137-138)
POSSIBLE ADDITIONS TO THE BILL
Prohibition on payments to witnesses
Anonymity for defendants in sexual offence
cases
Non tape-recorded cell confession evidence
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ANNEX: STRUCTURE OF THE BILL
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES SUBMITTED BY
WITNESSES (FOLLOWING ORAL EVIDENCE SESSIONS)
LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
PREVIOUS REPORTS
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
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