Course description
Criminal lawyers will need to have a working knowledge of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act when advising their clients.
Colin Beaumont presents this concise and informative webinar which will give those who advise in a criminal capacity an introduction to the issues surrounding the rehabilitation of offenders.
It will explore how to advise the client at that early stage in the police station, the circumstances in which a person need not declare spent convictions or spent cautions when applying for employment, how the rehabilitation period is tied into the disposal whereby a person is never rehabilitated under the 1974 Act, and much more.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This bitesize webinar will give those who advise in a criminal capacity an introduction to the key issues surrounding the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- How to advise the client at that early stage in the police station
- The circumstances in which a person need not declare spent convictions or spent cautions when applying for employment
- Understanding how the rehabilitation period is tied into the disposal and the disposals whereby a person is never rehabilitated under the 1974 Act
- The exceptions whereby you may have to declare spent cautions and spent convictions
- Fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder
- An examination of the term ‘buffer period’ in relation to sentences and the difference in the ‘buffer period’ between adults and youths
- Rehabilitation periods relating to motoring offences which carry an endorsement
- ‘Protected status’ in relation to certain convictions and cautions
- Filtering - the term used by the DBS to identify ‘protected’ cautions and convictions
- Standard and enhanced DBS certificates
- Jobs or activities for which, in the words of the Court of Appeal, the ‘utmost integrity’ is required
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