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Alyson Sprawson, Senior Presiding Judge office In Attendance: 
Greg McGill (Co-chair), Crown Prosecution Service Nick Ephgrave (Co-chair), Surrey police  
District Judge Karim Ezzat, Chief Magistrates office Kate Anderson, Crown Prosecution Service Richard Chown, Ministry of Justice Stu Prior, Nottingham police  
Richard Atkins QC, Bar Council Anthony Hill, Attorney General's Office Sarah Pritchard, National Crime Agency Allison Hunter QC, Criminal Bar Association Ian Kelcey, Criminal Law Committee Mary Aspinall-Miles, Criminal Bar Association Richard Atkinson, Criminal Law Committee Joanna Fiddian, Ministry of Justice Janet Arkinstall, Law Society  
Daniel Bonich, CLSA 
Asia Schuler - note taker Apologies John Cairncross, Home Office 

## 1.  Welcome And Introductions

 
1.1  The co-chairs welcomed members.  Apologies were received from John Cairncross. 
 

## 2.     Terms Of Reference

 
2.1  
The draft Terms of Reference were reviewed.  The co-chairs outlined that their vision for the 
Forum.  is to be open and consultative in order to identify areas for improvement and to find 
solutions. 
 
2.2  The Forum agreed that it would meet monthly, with a review of frequency after three 
months. 

## 3. **Ndip Governance And Plan**

 
3.1 The Forum discussed groups established under the NDIP governance.  
 
3.2 The NDIP action plan was shared with the group and discussed.  The plan is a collation of 
recommendations from MMCPSI and Mouncher.  It identified five key themes, based on the recommendations, ownership of which was with CPS police and College of Policing. 
 

## 4. Emerging Processes - The Disclosure Management Document

 
4.1 The draft Disclosure Management Document was presented to the Forum for comment. 
They recommended that an additional bullet point was added to deal with lines of enquiry 
arising from admissions by the suspect in interview and to ensure that these were followed 
up by investigators.   
 
4.2 The Forum discussed whether and how a streamlined version of the DMD could be used in 
the Magistrates' Courts.  In relation to electronic material, there was discussion about the 
importance of police being proactive in seeking evidence from social media.  There was 
agreement that Police and defence would both benefit from early engagement pre-charge, which at present does not happen. 

4.3 Retrieving Third Party Material was known to be difficult.  Different local authorities gave 
differing amounts of cooperation. It was agreed that further work would be done to 
investigate how this might be standardised and improved.  
 

## 5. Aob

 
5.1 The Forum agreed to meet in one month's time and that future meeting would continue to 
be held in London.