UK Law

Tag: Criminal Law

  • Criminal Justice Review

    Criminal Justice Review (2000) in North Ireland Sets out 249 recommendations which re-shaped the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland including the prosecution of offences, courts, judicial appointments, youth justice, victims and witnesses and lay involvement in adjudication.

  • Criminal Justice Policy

    Criminal justice policy: UK Legal History Criminal Justice Act 1877 The Criminal Justice Act of 1877 remained in force until 1948, and was subject to reformist criticism during the inter-war period. Sir Maurice Waller and Sir Alexander Paterson were members of the Prisons Commission, and were […]

  • Criminal Justice Policy

    Criminal justice policy: UK Legal History Criminal Justice Act 1877 The Criminal Justice Act of 1877 remained in force until 1948, and was subject to reformist criticism during the inter-war period. Sir Maurice Waller and Sir Alexander Paterson were members of the Prisons Commission, and were […]

  • Criminal Law Revision Committee

    Definition of Criminal Law Revision Committee This body was set up in 1959 and worked part time to review areas of the criminal law.

  • Criminal Behaviour Order

    Definition of Criminal Behaviour Order Available on conviction for any criminal offence in any criminal court.

  • Criminal Behaviour Order

    Definition of Criminal Behaviour Order Available on conviction for any criminal offence in any criminal court.

  • Criminal Cases Review Commission

    Definition of Criminal Cases Review Commission The criminal cases review commission was set up in response to the number of miscarriages of justice.

  • Liquidated Damages

    Liquidated Damages in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Liquidated Damages may have the following meaning: see damage – n. Loss or harm. Not all forms […]

  • Criminal Damage

    Definition of Criminal Damage In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Criminal Damage : The offence of intentionally or recklessly destroying or damaging any property belonging to another without a lawful excuse. It is punishable by up to ten years' […]

  • Capacity of A Child in Criminal Law

    Resources See Also See doli capax.

  • Damage

    Definition of Damage In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Damage : Loss or harm. Not all forms of damage give rise to a right of action; for example, an occupier of land must put up with a reasonable amount of noise from his neighbours (See nuisance), and…

  • Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme

    Definition of Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme : A state scheme for awarding payments from public funds to victims who have sustained *criminal injury, on the same basis as […]

  • Double Criminality

    Definition of Double Criminality In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Double Criminality : The rule in *extradition procedures that, in order for the request to be complied with, the crime for which extradition is sought must be a crime in both the […]

  • Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings

    Sir Brian Leveson’s Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings The recommendations from the Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings carried out by Sir Brian Leveson, published in January 2015, are wide-ranging – and challenge the criminal justice system to be more radical in the use […]

  • Criminal Court

    Definition of Criminal Court In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Criminal Court : A court exercising jurisdiction over criminal rather than civil cases. In England all criminal cases must be initiated in the *magistrates' courts. Summary offences […]