Tag: Law Enforcement
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Bailie
In Scotland the word bailiff has taken the form of bailie, signifying a superior officer or magistrate of a municipal corporation. Bailies, by virtue of their office, are invested with certain judicial and administrative powers within the burgh for which they are appointed. They sit as […]
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Punishment
History in relation to Criminal Law An essential part of the criminal law is the punishment or sanction by which the state seeks to prevent or avenge offences. See also under Criminology. Here it is enough to say that during the 19th century great changes have been made throughout the world […]
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Punishment
History in relation to Criminal Law An essential part of the criminal law is the punishment or sanction by which the state seeks to prevent or avenge offences. See also under Criminology. Here it is enough to say that during the 19th century great changes have been made throughout the world […]
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Bailiff
Definition of Bailiff Bailiffs and enforcement officers are authorised by the courts to exercise certain powers. In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Bailiff is: All officer of a court (usually a county court) concerned with the service of the […]
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Corporal Punishment
History Corporal Punishment, chastisement inflicted by one person on the body (corpus) of another. By the common law of England, Scotland and Ireland, the infliction of corporal punishment is illegal unless it is done in self-defence or in defence of others, or is done either by some person […]
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Capital Punishment
History The modes of capital punishment in England under the Saxon and Danish kings were various: hanging, beheading, burning, drowning, stoning, and precipitation from rocks. The principle on which this British and foreign laws and methods. variety depended was that where an offence was […]
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Prisoners Vote
Background Since 1969 no convicted prisoner in the United Kingdom has been allowed to vote. This prohibition was imposed, without debate, by the Representation of the People Act 1969. For two years before that there was no statutory bar to prisoners voting by post, albeit that there were, in […]
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Death Penalty
The death penalty: UK Legal History By 1900, murder was the only civilian crime (with few and rare exceptions) that incurred the mandatory death sentence. The only exception was on grounds of diminished responsibility through mental illness. The death sentence was finally abolished with the […]
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Death Penalty
The death penalty: UK Legal History By 1900, murder was the only civilian crime (with few and rare exceptions) that incurred the mandatory death sentence. The only exception was on grounds of diminished responsibility through mental illness. The death sentence was finally abolished with the […]