The Criminal Justice Act 1991 runs on information. All the key decisions which fall to be made require adequate and relevant information before the court. David Cochrane with David Pratt of Nottinghamshire Probation Service and Karen Winter, defence solicitor in Nottingham, considers the part that the Probation Service should play in supplying information pertinent to the assessment of the key factors of 'seriousness' and 'risk'.
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Bryan Gibson , 'Information and Pre-sentence Reports', Law Societies Gazette, 36, 7 Oct. 1992.
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A.Ashworth et al, Materials on the Criminal Justice Act 1991, Waterside Press, 1992
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The most recent example being Norton and Claxton (1989) 11 Cr App R (S) 143. 15. See note 2.
