All Rape Cases To Be 'urgently' Reviewed Over Evidence Disclosure

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42841346

This appears to be much worse than we thought. Time for Alison Saunders to resign perhaps ?

[ToraToraTora]

So the CPS is rigging cases? This does the genuine cases no favours whilst innocents are no doubt being convicted. Yet more evidence if it were needed of the sheer uselessness of the CPS, clearly they are not fit for purpose.

[Peter Pedant]

erm no it is not perverting the course of justice
that is a 'witness crime' which is something else

I think the leading case is R v McHugh 1748
can you murder by perjury ? resounding no
( McHugh bore false witness against various people seriatim - and they ended up getting hanged. and so he was indicted for mairder. Case dismissed )

[ToraToraTora]

fro wikipedia; "Perverting the course of justice is an offence committed when a person prevents justice from being served on him/herself or on another party. In England and Wales it is a common law offence, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment." - sound right to me.

[jno]

by that definition, an inept lawyer or a sleepy judge could pervert the course of justice. This sounds more like incompetence to me; people just aren't doing their job.

[mikey4444]

10C....I think its got nothing to do with Plod...its the failure of the CPS to disclose salient details to the defence team.

[ToraToraTora]

no jno I think it's deliberate, the CPS want to prosecute the accused and thus hide evidence that could effect their case. The CPS is not fit for purpose, they prosecute or not based on their own political agenda, not the evidence or lack of it and yes I have first hand experience.