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• The event will also feature a Psychedelic Speakers Series curated by MAPS and a camping area for MAPS supporters.
• SAN JOSE, Calif., March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) is excited to announce its collaboration with Texas Eclipse 2024 for its 38th anniversary celebration.
• MAPS’ 38th anniversary, celebrating its founding on April 8, 1984, coincides with the last total solar eclipse that will be visible in the contiguous US for another 20 years.
• The collaboration with Texas Eclipse will feature MAPS’ 38th Anniversary Psychedelic Speaker Series with MAPS Founder and President Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Allyson Grey & Alex Grey, Sutton King, Paul Stamets, and more!

• That the Post Office was able to bring so many prosecutions – and to conduct them so appallingly – is because the company was not supervised.
• Just as any other public company or private citizen might, the Post Office brought private prosecutions.
• As co-directors of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network, we have been working on a review of private prosecutions since 2019.

How private prosecutions are brought

• To bring a private prosecution, a person or company asks a magistrate to issue a summons against the accused person.
• When the accused person answers the summons, an ordinary criminal case ensues – not a civil case.
• This is one duty which the Post Office manifestly declined to perform, as has been highlighted by statutory inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Safeguards for private prosecutions

• There has long been the possibility for the director of public prosecutions (DPP) – who, since 1986, is the head of the CPS – to take over a private prosecution or discontinue it.
• Since 2009, the policy has been to discontinue private prosecutions which do not meet the same core standards (that there be a realistic prospect of prosecution or that a prosecution is in the public interest) with which the CPS must comply.
• However, it would normally be up to the accused person themselves to ask that the DDP or CPS should take it over, and the decision would still be made on the basis of the files in the possession of the private prosecutor.

Private prosecutions should be reformed, not abolished

• It is important not to look at private prosecutions entirely through the prism of the Post Office scandal.
• Where wealthy and determined victims have the means to investigate and prosecute effectively, they may, in fact, be doing a public service.
• Some succesful private prosecutions have led to confiscation orders being made against convicted defendants that have resulted in millions of pounds being handed over to the Treasury.
• In recent years, many legal firms specialising in private prosecutions have formed their own Private Prosecutors’ Association.

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• PARIS, Dec. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Traditional approaches to international cooperation are insufficient to reach Paris Agreement objectives and innovative solutions must start happening, according to a new report published by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) Initiative.
• A critical innovation would be to put countries' needs at the center of international cooperation processes.
• Country representation must be ensured from the start and at all stages of the design of cooperative solutions.
• "We can only achieve the Paris Agreement goal if all countries can do more.

• SLS 300 Expands Selective Laser Sintering Portfolio with Affordable, Turnkey, Closed-loop System
  At Formnext, 3D Systems is formally introducing the SLS 300 (formerly the Wematter Gravity).
• In its booth at Formnext, 3D Systems will introduce the new SLS 300 Powder Recycling Station (PRS).
• At Formnext 2023, 3D Systems will preview the PSLA 270, a new projector-based polymer 3D printing platform.
• Formnext attendees are encouraged to visit 3D Systems’ booth to learn more and provide early feedback on this game-changing solution.