Forced Marriage: Prosecutions

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps the CPS is taking to improve the prosecution rate of people responsible for forced marriages.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 20th January 2020

The CPS takes the prosecution of forced marriage seriously. Each CPS Area has a lead prosecutor on forced marriage who works closely with the police and other prosecutors. The CPS’s legal guidance on forced marriage assists prosecutors and is reviewed regularly. For example, it was revised last year to address cases where the victim lacks capacity to consent to marriage. Since April 2019, the joint police and CPS forced marriage working group has developed training for prosecutors and agreed a protocol for the investigation and prosecution of forced marriage. The CPS is also working with stakeholders to identify and address the obstacles to the prosecution of forced marriage.

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