Criminal solicitors in Manchester can assist natural persons involved in areas of law that are covered by the criminal regulations. Criminal law can cover numerous areas of expertise, such as evasion, domestic abuse, murder, manslaughter, terrorism, drug offences, kidnapping, cyber-crime, people trafficking, firearms and numerous others. Our team can represent you.
Our Manchester solicitors are also able to help persons involved robbery cases, sexual offences, money laundering accusations and numerous others, as criminal law can refer to multiple types of offences. Our team can also provide legal representation to those involved in business crimes or those known as white-collar crimes.
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What are your basic rights when accused of a crime in Manchester?
Persons who have been accused of a crime that falls under the regulations of the criminal law in the UK benefit of a set of rights. Regardless if the person is accused based on solid legal grounds or the person is falsely accused, any person has the right to be legally represented by criminal solicitors in Manchester.
The person’s perspective on the case has to be heard and all the documents or other pieces of evidence must be analyzed in order to verify the validity of an accusation or its invalidity. Thus, at the moment when a person was arrested by the police and charged with a crime, the person has a right to call a lawyer. This is why our criminal solicitors in Manchester can provide legal support at any hour of the day, regardless if it is during the week, the weekend or holiday.
It is also important to know that our lawyer in Manchester can provide legal representation not only in Manchester, but anywhere in the UK. Furthermore, at the moment in which the person is arrested and sent in temporary arrest at a police station in Manchester, you can address to our lawyers to participate in the police interview.
Given the fact that the UK as a population that is comprised of persons who arrived here from almost all the world’s countries, it is also necessary to know that our team can represent foreigners as well, but also persons who do not speak English, as this can also be the case. Our criminal solicitors in Manchester remain at your disposal in the case in which you just worry about a particular legal situation, but also when you have actually been accused of one of the above mentioned types of crimes.
Please be aware that the police has the right to arrest you in the case it has reasonable grounds to do so. In this case, you can either be charged, which means that you will be jailed, or you can be put on a bail in the case in which you were only arrested and not charged for a crime. In the latter situation, the initial bail period is of 28 days, and it can be prolonged to 3-6 months after this initial period, but only in complex situations.
Being charged for a crime means that, from a legal point of view, the case has to be heard in front of a court. Our team of criminal solicitors in Manchester can present the rights one has in each of these two basic situations that can occur once a person is arrested.
Criminal justice statistics in the UK
The statistics on the legal cases that are judged by the criminal justice system are held by the Ministry of Justice. The latest information show that the number of criminal offences has slightly decreased in the last years, and this is applied to the overall number of persons who were dealing with the criminal justice law, but also on number of individuals who were prosecuted under the regulations of the criminal justice. Currently, the UK criminal justice system is represented by the following:
- from April 2019 to March 2020, a total number of 1.49 million persons dealt with the criminal justice system (this does not include cautions);
- this accounted for a decrease of 2% compared to the previous period (2018 to 2019);
- in the period of April 2019 – March 2020, it is estimated that 5.7 million crimes were registered (this does not include fraud and computer related crimes), which accounted for a decrease of 12% compared to the previous period;
- out of court disposal, through which various crimes can be dealt with without the ruling of the court, accounted for 151,000 cases;
- small crimes, such as harassment, possession of cannabis, theft with a small value (of less than GBP 100), were sanctioned with Penalty Notices for Disorder, which accounted for 19,000 cases (a decline of 10% compared to the 2018-2019).
Please contact our criminal solicitors in Manchester for more information on the rights and obligations you have in the case you have been charged for a crime. Our lawyer in Manchester remains at your disposal in the case you need urgent legal assistance and legal advice.
If you are interested in legal representation or legal advice on other matters, you can always address to our lawyers, who have an in-depth experiences in many areas of law.
For instance, our immigration lawyers in Manchester can offer legal representation in any immigration matter – obtaining visas, residence permits, applying for citizenship, relocating with your family members, relocating for work.
The UK is one of the European countries with one of the largest immigration demands. For instance, the population that has a non-UK ethnic background accounts for approximately 10 million persons, as revealed by the latest data, measured in 2022.
Most of the foreigners arrive here for employment opportunities and if you are interested in this, please contact our employment lawyers in Manchester.
Many foreigners arrive here not only for employment opportunities, but also to experience a better quality of life for themselves or their family and children.
Our solicitors in Manchester city centre can help you with advice regarding how to enroll a child in the British public school system and how to apply for visas for your family members who want to reunite with you in the UK.
