CPS issues new guidance on ‘honour’-based and dowry abuse

Updated guidance from Crown Prosecution Service covers forms of spiritual and immigration abuse for first time

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has published new guidance for its lawyers to help tackle “honour”-based abuse, with spiritual and immigration abuse included for the first time.

The guidance was updated to reflect growing concerns around evolving forms of abuse and to tackle what the CPS described as “emerging harmful practices”.