A pilot scheme designed to allow families of murder and manslaughter victims the chance to tell courts of the impact of the death is being tested at the Old Bailey, which handles a third of all such trials in England and Wales.
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seen at 14:10, 28 June in News from Department of Constitutional Affairs - national.