But the hard truth is if you are accused of a crime, you are not entitled to everything. What lengths are police expected to go to given the budget limitation they have? A victim of crime might never come forward if they believed that every personal detail of their life would be exposed to the perpetrator of a crime against them.ĭisclosure of that which might help an accused’s case or undermine the prosecution case in truth is a constant tussle between the defence and prosecution with occasionally a judge intervening. The perception of what the police can do, are doing, or are capable of doing can be different to reality. On the opening day, Kevin McGinty, Chief Inspector of the CPS confirmed that disclosure failings were the single most frequent cause in the steady stream of miscarriages of justice.ĭisclosure in criminal proceedings is not easy to understand. The Justice Select Committee is currently considering a sizeable amount of evidence. Parliamentary inquiry into disclosure proceduresĪt the end of March parliament began an inquiry into the disclosure procedures for criminal prosecutions.
The same phone that had been seized by police.