Violence against Women and Girls Crime report contents

Coroners and Justice Act 2009 s.71
Modern Slavery Act 2015 s.1 and s.2
The flag is applied at the outset of the case and will remain in place
even if those charges are subsequently amended or dropped. If a
case commences under a different offence but is then changed to a
trafficking charge, the case should be flagged at that stage.
From April 2013:
ss.57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 were replaced by
s.59A SOA ; and
ss.4(1), (2) and (3) of the Asylum and Immigration [Treatment of
Claimants] Act 2004; were repealed and replaced by s.4(1A) (1B)
(1C) A&IA.
Rape:
any defendant charged with one or more of the following offences
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s.1 Sexual Offences Act 1956
s.5 Sexual Offences Act 1956
o An attempt to commit one of the above offences
under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981
s.1 Sexual Offences Act 2003
s.5 Sexual Offences Act 2003
s.30(3) Sexual Offences act 2003
o An attempt to commit one of the above offences
under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981
Incitement or conspiracy to commit any of the above offences
Sexual offences exc. rape:
any defendant whose principal offence category, at finalisation, is a
sexual offence excluding rape.
Performance management terms
Monitoring flags:
Principal offences:
sensitive case types are identified using a number of monitoring
flags, applied to relevant cases at the pre-charge stage. The flags
allow managers to monitor proceedings during the life of the
prosecution, and enable reporting of outcomes following the
conclusion of the case. The data is accurate only to the extent that
the flag has been correctly applied; there may be a small number of
cases where the use of the flag has been omitted.
Principal offence category: charged offences are allocated one of
twelve offence categories to indicate the type and seriousness of
the charges brought against the defendant. The Principal Offence
Category indicates the most serious offence with which the
defendant is charged at the time of finalisation. Where the nature
of the charges alters during the life of a case, the Principal Offence
at the time of finalisation may be different than would have
seemed appropriate at an earlier stage of proceedings. In all such
cases the Principal Offence category to be recorded is that which
applies at finalisation, regardless of whether this is more serious,
or less serious, than would have applied earlier in the life of the
case.
Where a defendant faces a mix of charges of which fall into
different Principal Offence Categories, chose the most serious
according to the following order of priority:
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