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Prosecution guidance is clear that accidental presence at the scene of a crime or mere association with an offender is never enough to create liability - a suspect has to assist or encourage the offence in some way.
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Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, lost a court of appeal bid in February to make the director of public prosecutions provide guidance on the circumstances in which family members could face prosecution for assisted suicide.
"We want new steps to boost reporting of hate crime and supporting victims, new CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] guidance to prosecutors on racially aggravated crime, a new fund for protective security measures at potentially vulnerable institutions and additional funding to community organisations so they can tackle hate crime.
Even without this guidance, prosecutions were taking place.
Last week Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, issued new guidance to remind police that her lawyers would not make charging decisions in relation to dead perpetrators, implying that police were not aware of the ruling that the dead could not be charged with criminal offences.
Assisting a suicide is illegal under the 1961 Suicide Act, but last year the director of public prosecutions laid out guidance covering what factors would be taken into consideration when deciding whether to prosecute a person who had helped someone to die.
In July it emerged that 14 police forces had recorded 139 revenge porn allegations in the six months to April, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published guidance on prosecuting revenge porn cases before the new legislation came into force.
The scandal also saw the Crown Prosecution Service change its guidance on the weight given to testimony from alleged victims.
The director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, has issued guidance to police and prosecutors that where there is more than one incident or it is part of a pattern of behaviour towards one individual a charge of harassment should be considered.
Extra funding for security measures and guidance on the prosecution of perpetrators will also follow a spike in xenophobic and racist abuse in recent days.
The Crown Prosecution Service has issued "interim guidance" on joint enterprise cases to all prosecutors and plans to revise it following the court of appeal hearings next week.
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