Your link rightly indicates that plea bargaining may occur in the UK - but in specific instances:
where a defendant testifies against a co-conspirator;
where a lesser charge is offered due to the difficulty of proving the greater charge.
Thus, to obtain some sort of justice when the chances...
I must say that it would please me if Labour make a decision to not pander to the pollsters and focus groups of Daily Mail and Star readers when planning their post-victory strategy. Here are a few mutually incompatible issues they will have to navigate, each of which will be weaponized before...
No, it doesn't work like that in the UK. There is likely to be a lighter sentence (within the recommended range) if the accused pleads guilty (when they are clearly guilty), especially if it saves a victim from having to give evidence. But we don't do what we hear about happening in the US, with...