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ARREST CHARGE AND SUMMONS: CURRENT PRACTICE AND RESOURCE

01 January 1991

ARREST CHARGE AND SUMMONS: CURRENT PRACTICE AND RESOURCE
IMPLICATIONS
refdoc July=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS User Ref = 343.1
R Gemmill R F Morgan-Giles Royal Commission on
Criminal Procedure
HMSO, Aug 1980 70pp, tables (Research Study No 9)
RB34804

Aims to document the present procedures and organisational
arrangements involved in bringing adults and juveniles
before the courts by way of summons, arrest or a combination
of the two, and assesses the relative costs and benefits
of those procedures in terms of time and manpower
extended by both the police and the courts. Makes an
assessment of the costs or benefits of different procedures
for defendants. The implications for both police and courts
in cost and organisational terms if greater use were
to be made of summons is also examined.

cost effectiveness, United Kingdom , law court,
jurisdiction, crime, criminal

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