Custody time limits meaning

In this issue: Data protection Confidential information LexTalk®Information Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Data protection ICO issues reprimand to Greater Manchester Police over lost CCTV footage The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) after two hours of custody suite CCTV from February 2021 went missing internally. The incident arose when footage, marked for retention beyond the routine 90-day window, was not kept appropriately. The ICO determined that GMP infringed the Data Protection Act 2018 by failing to adopt adequate technical safeguards to avoid data loss and by not providing the data subject with access within the statutory time limits. The inquiry concluded the loss stemmed from unclear internal ownership of quality checks and weak retention practices, rather than any external compromise or unauthorised disclosure. GMP has since enhanced its surveillance systems and introduced more robust retention measures. See: LNB News 30/05/2025 38...

Introduction This Practice Note serves as a handbook to arbitration conducted by the International and Ibero-American Arbitration Center of Madrid (‘CIIAM’ or the ‘Center’) (formerly CIAM-CIAR) pursuant to its arbitration rules effective from 1 January 2024 (the Arbitration Rules). It focuses on the issuance of awards, the assessment and apportionment of costs, and the ways in which proceedings can be brought to a close. Time limit for rendering awards The Arbitration Rules set timetable parameters that marry predictability with sufficient flexibility. They differentiate between standard proceedings and accelerated options (‘abbreviated procedure’ and ‘highly expedited procedure’). The Center oversees adherence to time limits, and arbitrators’ timeliness may influence both applications for extensions and the setting of fees (Arts 4.5, 49.1, and institutional guidance on award scrutiny). In ordinary proceedings, unless the parties stipulate otherwise, tribunals must issue awards on the merits within three months after the hearing or the final substantive submission. Submissions on costs are not treated as substantive when computing this period. Moreover, the Arbitration...

This Practice Note addresses breaches of police bail conditions and failures to attend the police station or court following release on bail from the police station. For general guidance on police bail, see Practice Notes: Police bail, Applicable bail period and How to make representations for bail at the police station. Breach of pre-charge bail conditions Where a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that pre-charge bail conditions have been broken, they may arrest the suspect without a warrant. However, breaching a pre-charge bail condition is not, in itself, a criminal offence. Once in detention, a decision must be taken on whether to charge the suspect with the offence for which they were originally bailed, or whether to re-release them on bail. On return to the police station, the PACE 1984 clock (the 24-hour detention period) continues from the point at which the suspect was last in custody. An additional three hours are added to the clock to allow the police further time to obtain a charging...

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note offers background detail on reforms to criminal procedure that took effect on 7 October 2013 under the Criminal Procedure Rules 2013, SI 2013/1554. Those regulations have since been revoked. The operative rules on criminal procedure are now set out in the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015, SI 2015/1490, as amended. See Practice Note: The Criminal Procedure Rules. This Practice Note reflects the law as at 7 October 2013, is not maintained, and is provided for background information only. Summary of changes to the Crim PR The Criminal Procedure Rules 2013 (Crim PR 2013) introduced new provisions concerning the following: applications for search warrants, set out in Part 6 of the Criminal Procedure Rules applications and appeals under new legislation governing the retention of fingerprints and DNA samples and profiles (Part 6) the dismissal of charges sent for trial, by way of a new rule in Part 9 Crim PR 2013 revokes the previous rules in Parts...