Tag

Prosecution

Recommendations related to prosecution

9 recommendations 67% accepted

Tag overview

Government Response
Accepted (2)
Accepted in Part (4)
Not Accepted (1)
Awaiting Response (2)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 5 inquiries

Across 5 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

9 total
R105 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Reverse burden for organisational failure to prevent harm

Consideration should be given to a different approach to the prosecution of organisations for failing to prevent deliberate harm being caused by their employees, such as by applying a reverse …

Department of Health NI
R89 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Review of prosecution system timeliness

The Department of Justice should review the timeliness of the handling of each aspect of the prosecution system that has led to the delay in bringing those accused of causing …

Northern Ireland Executi…
DM-7 Accepted Daniel Morgan Panel

CPS guidance on disclosure for profit

It is recommended that the Crown Prosecution Service's additional guidance should be amended to include a requirement that the Prosecutor should consider whether the information was disclosed with a view …

Crown Prosecution Service
IHRD-8 Accepted in Part Hyponatraemia Inquiry

RQIA Compliance Review Powers

Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ('RQIA') should review overall compliance and consideration should be given to granting it the power to prosecute in cases of serial non-compliance or serious and …

Department of Health NI
F87 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

Ensuring the utility of a health and safety function in a clinical setting

The Health and Safety Executive is clearly not the right organisation to be focusing on healthcare. Either the Care Quality Commission should be given power to prosecute 1974 Act offences …

- CQC was given powers to prosecute for offences of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of individuals by care providers or care workers under sections 20 …
Department of Health and…
F90 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Assistance in deciding on prosecutions

In order to determine whether a case is so serious, either in terms of the breach of safety requirements or the consequences for any victims, that the public interest requires …

- HSE published guidance on the selection and management of expert witnesses in enforcement proceedings, including healthcare-related cases. HSE uses expert medical and clinical advisors …
L55 Not Accepted Leveson Inquiry

ICO Prosecution Powers Extension

The prosecution powers of the Information Commissioner should be extended to include any offence which also constitutes a breach of the data protection principles.

- Under the Data Protection Act 1998, the Information Commissioner's prosecution powers were limited to specific offences including section 55 (unlawful obtaining of data). The …
UK Government
L56 Accepted in Part Leveson Inquiry

ICO Consult with CPS

A new duty should be introduced (whether formal or informal) for the Information Commissioner's Office to consult with the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to the exercise of its powers …

- The Data Protection Act 2018 does not include a formal statutory duty for the ICO to consult with the Crown Prosecution Service before exercising …
UK Government
L63 Accepted in Part Leveson Inquiry

ICO Adopt DPP Guidelines

The Information Commissioner's Office should immediately adopt the Guidelines for Prosecutors on assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions in September …

- The Director of Public Prosecutions published Guidelines for Prosecutors on assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media in September 2012 (DPP Guidelines, …
Information Commissioner