Category: Civil and Human Rights

  • Reprimands and Warnings

    The system of reprimands and warnings was found to be too rigid, so the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has abolished it and re-introduced the old system of cautions.

  • DNA samples and finger prints

    Provisions were included in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 amending PACE. Under these provisions DNA samples and finger prints must be destroyed if it appears to the police that the material was taken unlawfully. DNA samples and fingerprints of those arrested but not convicted must […]

  • Brighton Declaration of the European Court of Human Rights

    The 47 member nations of the Council of Europe agreed a package of reforms at a conference in Brighton in 2012. These reforms were published in the Brighton Declaration. The plan is to amend the introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights (known as the preamble) to include the […]