The purposes of these limitations (which existed in the Act) are to avoid or at least limit, as far as possible, any unnecessary or politically-driven prosecutions against media organisations. It says prosecutions must be timely and the DPP has the right, in the exercise of h...
These restraints relate to ACT Policing’s Operation Goeben, an investigation that began in March 2020 after an illegal brothel was discovered during a COVID-19 compliance check by City Police Station general duties members. READ ALSODomestic violence offences too lenient in the ACT: DPP ...
Requests for the effecting of an improper performance of his function at £500 per time, most of which had occurred before the act came into force, but it gave the opportunity for the DPP, (NB, not the SFO) to flex his muscles and launch the very first Bribery Act prosecution. What ...
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