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Describe how both the Police and the Courts Decide Matters Relating to the Granting of Bail to a Person awaiting Trial
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Describe how both the Police and the Courts Decide Matters Relating to the Granting of Bail to a Person awaiting Trial Bail is when the police or the courts detain a person suspected of committing a crime to make further enquiries. The granting of bail is one of the important pre-trial matters. When a person is given bail it means that he is allowed to be at liberty until the next stage in the case. The procedures for whether bail should be granted or not are covered in The Bail Act 1976, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (CJPOA) 1994 and Section 38 of the Pace Act 1984. Both the police or the courts can grant or refuse bail, and I am going to discuss how they do it. The police may release a suspect on bail, on condition that the suspect agrees to return to the station at a given...
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