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should be recorded and provided to the Community Scrutiny Panel for review
(para 4.50).
43. The Ministry of Justice should engage with academics who research
sentencing data and share the necessary data with researchers to measure bias
within judicial decision-making (para 4.56).
44. The Courts of England and Wales should establish internal peer-review
initiatives to increase scrutiny of judicial decisions (para 4.58).
45. The Crown Prosecution Service should place a specific focus on decisions
concerning BAME suspects within its internal scrutiny mechanism,
particularly with regard to charging decisions where evidence from the Gang
Violence Matrix is considered (para 4.59).
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