Grant next-of-kin victim status in homicide cases.
• Allow acquittals to be appealed in serious cases where compelling new evidence emerges.
• Enable cases to be reopened, overturning acquittals where they arise from error in law by a judge.
• Allow new prosecutions where evidence in original trial was tainted.
• Restrict unjustified and vexatious imputations at trial against character of deceased.
