Crown Prosecution Service
Forensic assessment · v0.2.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- Asked for clarification or fee → Redirected
- Last contact
- 26 October 2026
- Next date on file
- 18 November 2026 (ceived via CPS Wales on 21 Oct 2026 as FOI 14786; statutory reply due 18 Nov 2026.)
- Earlier version
- v0.1.1, published 18 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki
Since last assessment
18 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
Our reading: Since 18 October 2026, 3 emails are on file: 1 sent, 2 received (1 with content, 1 automatic acknowledgements). The latest reply moves the response status from “Asked for clarification or fee” to “Redirected”. Most material: 21 October 2026, received, redirected elsewhere: The CPS states it cannot accept or consider evidence sent directly by members of the public, has no knowledge of the referenced case, and directs the requester to the police. Next date on file: 18 November 2026. Nothing here changes the earlier current finding unless stated above; this is a log of contact, not a finding about any person.
- Receivedredirected elsewhere
The CPS states it cannot accept or consider evidence sent directly by members of the public, has no knowledge of the referenced case, and directs the requester to the police.
- Sentchase
The requester follows up.
1 automatic acknowledgement
- 14786
Logs the request received via CPS Wales on 21 Oct 2026 as FOI 14786; statutory reply due 18 Nov 2026.
The assessment as last published
Carried over unchanged from v0.1.1 (18 October 2026). Links point inside this site.
Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: See the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution, people and evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap, not the letter’s content or proof of misconduct.
Forensic Assessment — Crown Prosecution Service
Scope: CPS involvement only. No criminal assertions is treated as established by the family research.
Role
The CPS is relevant only where a historic offence, prosecution decision or present criminal-law referral is evidenced. The current project record does not establish that the CPS was a decision-maker in the 1984–88 title, registration or demolition process. 🕒
Control test
Identify any actual CPS case/reference, charging decision, advice to police, prosecution file or retained record tied to the Great House Farm events. Do not substitute press reports or testimony for a prosecution record.
Current finding
As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish CPS misconduct or a criminal-law failure. This assessment is limited by the identified historical records and searches. The missing-record rule applies: absence of a current search result is not proof of historic destruction or concealment. 🕒
Human action
Only pursue a targeted records request if the South Wales Police or court evidence identifies a concrete CPS case/reference. Any future referral must concern a specific suspected offence and evidence, not the civil title dispute itself.
Acceptance: either a documentary CPS role is identified and reviewed, or a defensible negative-search record closes the route.
Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index
Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “Crown Prosecution Service”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. Dates are transcribed from page titles where available; “Date not explicit in title” means the linked source must be consulted. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive external coverage. 🕒
| Date shown by source title | Event / source — open evidence | Record class |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | GHF-E090-N12 — “Charge against evicted farmer dropped” (January 1989) | Published Wiki evidence page |
| Date not explicit in title | Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts | Published Wiki evidence page |
Records-access register appearances — direct row links
Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.
| Date | Correspondence / register item (click to open) | Reading rule |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | R30 — Crown Prosecution Service, Victim Liaison Unit Cymru-Wales. | Register row contains a name/alias match; inspect the linked row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental mention. |
| 29 Sep 2026 | R11 — Crown Prosecution Service, Victim Liaison Unit Cymru-Wales. | Register row contains a name/alias match; inspect the linked row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental mention. |
Related navigation: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Evidence Library
Page version & change log
Current version: 0.1.1
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18T15:29Z | the editors | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 0.1.0 | 2026-10-18T14:27:00+01:00 | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed footer log; version tracking begins at 0.1.0; this does not reconstruct earlier revisions. CURRENT VERSION: 0.1.0. | Saved through WordPress API; public rendering not individually checked. |
| Legacy; version not recorded | 2026-10-18 (rollout date; exact time not separately recorded) | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed this page-local append-only change log and agent instructions. Existing page content was not intentionally rewritten. | User-directed site-wide changelog standard. Saved via WordPress API; public rendering of this page not yet independently checked. |
Agents and editors: follow the Editing Protocol.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
8 dated interactions, oldest first; 3 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
Show the timeline
| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2026 | sent | — | request | Subject: Re-Opening of BP vs Buckler 1987 |
| 9 September 2026 | received | — | redirected elsewhere | However, we are unable to comment on hypothetical circumstances or on events that have not yet occurred. |
| 27 September 2026 | sent | — | chase | Subject: Chase — submission of 3 September 2026: Great House Farm / suspected historic misconduct |
| 29 September 2026 | received | — | fee or clarification demand | Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate a case file based on the information provided. |
| 30 September 2026 | sent | — | request | Subject: Re: Great House Farm / suspected historic misconduct — further information and request for consideration |
| 10 October 2026 | sent | — | chase | Subject: Re: Great House Farm / suspected historic misconduct |
| 21 October 2026 | received | — | redirected elsewhere | Therefore, we are unable to comment on the matters you have raised or answer any questions regarding the investigation. |
| 21 October 2026 | sent | — | chase | Subject: Re: Great House Farm / suspected historic … |
(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
Contradictions between replies, or between institutions
- 9 September 2026: Redirected on 9 September 2026 to police; that body answered “not held” on 29 September 2026 (its page). Each points elsewhere; the record is not located.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): some
- Duty
- Public Records Act 1958 (court and departmental records; selection, retention, transfer); FOIA 2000 (court records are largely exempt under s.32, which narrows what must be released, not what must be kept).
- Indicators the duty was not met
- redirections that end in “not held”.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- Limited, unless a court record that should have been retained is shown to have been lost or mis-filed.
(e) Evidence still needed
- Inspect the court file or its catalogue entry at the archive holding the court's transferred records. for paid visit list
Versions
| 0.2.0 | 2026-11-01 | Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read. |
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18 | As published on the Legal Wiki. |