DPP wins challenge to rulings which have led to release of potentially dangerous people
Judges were wrong to refuse to extend the period defendants could be kept in jail awaiting trial in cases delayed by the criminal barristers’ strike, the high court has ruled.
It accepted a challenge by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to decisions made by judges at Bristol and Manchester crown courts not to extend the period that three men in two cases could be held on remand beyond the six-month limit.
