Criminal Process, Part II: Formal Bringing of Charges
This 2nd part of the criminal process looks at what happens during/after the investigations and the police decide that they are going to recommend that the accused be charged. Receive formal charge at the police station At any time during the investigation, or once investigations are complete, the police may decide to charge an individual. This […]
Criminal Process, Part I: Forming a Charge
In the first of this 6-part series of articles on the Criminal Process, we look at what happens at the very beginning of the criminal process. First Information Report (FIR) The First Information Report (“FIR”) is the first document prepared by the police containing information that the police received about an alleged commission of […]
