Arrest of Judgment in United Kingdom

Definition of Arrest of Judgment

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Arrest of Judgment : A motion by a defendant in criminal proceedings on indictment, between the conviction and the sentence, that judgment should not be given on the ground of some objection arising on the face of the *record, such as a defect in the indictment itself. Such motions are extremely rare in modern practice.