Legal Training

Most police station representatives don't ask for Outcome 22 by name. Many don't know they can. Here's what it is, when it fits, and how to argue for it — the strongest disposal that doesn't leave a caution-or-conviction record and doesn't require an admission of guilt.

Diversion is the family of frameworks that lets a defence representative argue for an outcome avoiding charge entirely. It is also one of the most under-used arguments at the custody desk. Four temporal stages, three pathways that cut across them, and the practitioner’s five-question calculus.