Enhancing Legal Co-operation Within the Commonwealth: Proposal for the Establishment of the Commonwealth Network of Contact Persons
2005 Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers and Senior Officials › Memoranda › Criminal Law Issues (2006)
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Introduction. Background of other networks. European Judicial Network. The Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Network. The commonwealth network - the proposed scheme. Objective of the network. Composition. Functions of the network. Functions of the contact points. Meetings of the contact points in the network. Web page and list of contact points. Contacts with other networks and countries. Cost. Senior officials. Annex. Commonwealth network of contact persons (CNCP) framework of the CNCP. Article 1. Establishment. Article 2. Objective. Article 3. Composition. Article 4. Functions of the Network. Article 5. Functions of Contact Points. Article 7. Meetings. Article 8. Election of Chairperson of Meetings. Article 9. Role of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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Enhancing Legal Co-operation Within the Commonwealth: Proposal for the Establishment of the Commonwealth Network of Contact Persons
Introduction 1. Senior Officials of Commonwealth Law Ministries in their meeting on 18 October 2004 considered the possibility of setting up a Commonwealth Network of Contact Persons (CNCP), including Prosecutors and Competent Authorities, for effective co-operation in criminal matters amongst the members of the Commonwealth. This idea has been taken forward by Paul Wilkins, a Crown Advocate from Guernsey. The purpose of this paper is to outline how a CNCP could work in practice. 2. It is granted that to ensure an effective system of international co-operation in criminal matters, it is essential that there is proper communication between countries. In spite of having proper legislative frameworks, quite often members are not able to effectively co-operate with each other because of lack of information about the legislative and procedural requirements in other countries. This is further inhibited because of the absence of central authorities in many countries or ignorance about the existence of such authorities. In order to get over these...
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