Unfitness To Plead, Report: Law Commission Report #364 (Volume 1)

Unfitness To Plead, Report: Law Commission Report #364 (Volume 1) image
ISBN-10:

0102989338

ISBN-13:

9780102989335

Released: Feb 11, 2016
Format: Paperback, 1 pages
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The unfitness to plead project looks at how defendants who lack sufficient ability to participate meaningfully in trial should be dealt with in the criminal courts. Defendants may be unfit to plead for a variety of reasons, including difficulties resulting from mental illness (longstanding or temporary), learning disability, developmental disorder or delay, a communication impairment or some other cause or combination of causes. The purpose of the legal test is to identify, accurately and efficiently, those vulnerable defendants who, as a result of such difficulties, cannot fairly be tried. The related procedures then provide for an alternative process by which criminal allegations can be scrutinised and arrangements made, where appropriate, to provide treatment for the defendant and protection for the public. The aim of the law in this area is to balance the rights of the vulnerable defendant who cannot fairly be tried with the interests of those affected by the alleged offence and the need to protect the public. The Commission was unable to work further on the project between January 2011 and early 2013 and during that period there were significant changes to the criminal justice system. In particular, there has been a very substantial reduction in the budget available for the administration of the criminal courts. However, there have also been significant advances in the way that the criminal justice system responds to vulnerable individuals. Additionally, the Government has made a commitment to a national model for liaison and diversion services. This aims to place mental health and learning disability professionals in police stations and all courts, to assist in the identification and onward referral of vulnerable offenders

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