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Criminal defence and fast-track proceedings
Understand the charge before making decisions.
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Preliminary investigative proceedings
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
Investigative steps in the abbreviated procedure to establish the facts, circumstances and possible participants. They can end in various decisions, including dismissal. Opening them is not a conviction.
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