Sentence examples for criminal practitioners from inspiring English sources

"Two big issues will dominate criminal practitioners' thoughts in 2012: funding and policing.

Sporadic direct action against legal aid cuts last year failed to deter Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, from imposing the 17.5% cuts, and many criminal practitioners now feel their backs are against the wall.

Three years ago the Bar set up a website where publicly funded criminal practitioners could register examples of the enormous waste caused by the dysfunctional system within which they operate.

As a criminal practitioner of more than 20 years, I know the workloads that are undertaken daily by legal aid lawyers.

Kenneth Clarke knows it, criminal justice practitioners know it, prisoners know it and victims know it.

When Tom was appointed lord chief justice, criminal law practitioners were disdainful about the appointment of someone who had little experience of the criminal courts, or even familiarity with the criminal jurisdiction.

Instead, she said: "It is more appropriate for criminal justice practitioners to remain utterly professional at all times and to demonstrate respect, impartiality, empathy and to maintain an open mind … in the first instance, officers should proceed on the basis that the allegation is truthful".

In a letter sent to criminal law practitioners across England and Wales on Monday, Caplen calls for the second round of 8.75% fee cuts due next spring to be reassessed and reductions in the number of duty legal aid contracts for solicitors to cover police stations and magistrates courts put on hold.

"Now, criminal defence practitioners have faced the brunt of the devastation that has been wrought in the name of legal aid cutbacks, and so the opportunity to bring the police to account through the civil courts might not have been open to them at all".

Collaboration between criminal justice practitioners and local providers in developing a network of care will increase the chances that both systems will meet their respective goals.

Community treatment providers and criminal justice practitioners are beginning to incorporate such medications into their treatment regimes, whereas others oppose the use of medication and favor abstinence-only interventions (Knudsen et al. 2010).