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Withdrawn Charges (Costs)

Volume 806: debated on Tuesday 17 November 1970

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the grounds on which he has been persuaded not to introduce legislation to enable costs to be awarded to a defendant in criminal cases where a summons or charge relating to an indictable offence has been withdrawn as opposed to dismissed.