Criminal Offences

27/07/2022
Knowledge

How To

Criminal Offences (CO) is a dynamic interfacing tool designed to assist the criminal lawyer to record offences relating to a matter and, by keeping the tool up to date with the stage of the proceedings, inform the user of all relevant details relating to the offence including details such as next procedure, sentencing guidelines, citations, and other relevant information.

The database of information is maintained to ensure it is always up to date and will reflect changes to the law and guidance as they take place.

The App is designed to be an easy to use but extensive dynamic reference library that will save the user considerable time in research and ensure accuracy of information at all times.

Requirements

The CO requires you to be aware of the basic information relating to the charges, i.e. The charge description, charge date and plea if there is one at this stage.

Matters that can be used in conjunction with the CO must be centred around either Magistrates or Crown Court Cases

Provision in LEAP

The ability to use the CO electronically has now been added to LEAP with full functionality to add, edit and view offences with all relevant information relating to the charge being displayed.

Adding the Criminal Offences to LEAP

From the LEAP Matter List, click the LEAP Menu > App Marketplace.

The App Marketplace will open in a new window.
From the All Apps section, select Criminal Offences.
Click Enable.

Once enabled, all new and existing matters of the Magistrates or Crown Court will have an Criminal Offences button available on the Details & Correspondence ribbon.

Working with Criminal Offences from a Matter

Add a Charge

Open the Magistrates Court or Crown Court matter.
Make sure you're on the Details & Correspondence tab.
Click Criminal Offences.

The Criminal Offences will open in a new window.
Click Add Charge.

The Add Charge window will open.
Search for an offence using the Search Offences field.
Click or enter the Offence Date.
Click or enter the Charge Date.
Click the drop-down option to select a Current Plea.
Click Save.

Edit a Charge

Open the Magistrates Court or Crown Court matter.
Make sure you're on the Details & Correspondence tab.
Click Criminal Offences.

The Criminal Offences will open in a new window.
Click next to a charge and select Edit.
When you are done editing, click Save.

Delete a Charge

Open the Magistrates Court or Crown Court matter.
Make sure you're on the Details & Correspondence tab.
Click Criminal Offences.

The Criminal Offences will open in a new window.
Click next to a charge and select Delete.
Confirm the deletion of the charge.

View Sentencing Guidance of a Charge

Open the Magistrates Court or Crown Court matter.
Make sure you're on the Details & Correspondence tab.
Click Criminal Offences.

The Criminal Offences will open in a new window.
Double-click a charge to open the Sentencing Guidance relevant to the offence.

In this section, questions can be answered to give specifics that will govern content within the Criminal Offences Presentation Document.

The Sentencing Guidelines that are applicable to the charge being viewed are available in the example above by clicking Aggravated burglary as highlighted in the above image.

Generating the Offences Presentation Document

The Criminal Offences Presentation Document is a PDF document that lists all charges relating to the matter and runs through all the steps relating to each offence and displaying all the specific sentencing guidelines as defined by the user.

Once all information is entered against each charge in the Sentencing Guidelines section, the Criminal Offences Presentation Document is then ready to be created.

Open the Magistrates Court or Crown Court matter.
Make sure you're on the Details & Correspondence tab.
Click Criminal Offences.

The Criminal Offences will open in a new window.
Click Presentation Document.

This process will create and save a copy of the Criminal Offences Presentation Document to the Details & Correspondence tab of the matter, where it can be accessed at any time.

Changes to any of the charges will require a new Criminal Offences Presentation Document to be created.

Last Modified Date

27/07/2022 12:53 am

Title

Criminal Offences

URL Name

Criminal-Offences-UK

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