The End-to-end rape review report on findings and actions (pdf) sets out the government’s proposals improving the Criminal Justice System’s response to rape in England and Wales.
The government’s action plan will work to deliver the following outcomes:
- an ambition to increase the volume of cases progressing through the system so that more cases get to court, and more convictions are delivered, returning to 2016 levels
- victim engagement increased at every stage of the process
- complex cases are not deprioritised
- high quality cases referred by the police to the CPS
- increase public confidence in high quality decisions made by the CPS based on the evidence and material available and made in good time
- increased number of early guilty pleas
- improved timeliness of cases at each stage of the criminal justice process
- limiting requests for information from victims, whether digital or held by third parties
- defendant’s right to a fair trial is maintained through quality case building, and robust and appropriate disclosure.
