Criminal Practice in UK Law
- abuse of process
- actus reus
- admission of liability
- appeal against conviction
- attachment and committal
- bench warrant
- beyond reasonable doubt
- burden of proof
- change of plea
- charge sheet
- civil contempt
- committal proceedings
- committal warrant
- confession evidence
- contempt in the face of the court
- contempt of court
- criminal code
- criminal justice
- criminal procedure
- dock identification
- double jeopardy
- european arrest warrant
- fitness to be tried
- fitness to plead
- habeas corpus
- hostile witness
- identification evidence
- jury trial
- leave to appeal
- malicious prosecution
- mens rea
- miscarriage of justice
- oblique intention
- perverting the course of justice
- private prosecution
- privilege against self incrimination
- right to silence
- search and seizure
- standard of proof
- transferred malice
- visual identification evidence
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Sweet v Parsley
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In the first place a stigma still attaches to any person convicted of a truly criminal offence, and the more serious or more disgraceful the offence the greater the stimga. So he would have to consider whether, in a case of this gravity, the public interest really requires that an innocent person should be prevented from proving his innocence in order that fewer guilty men may escape.
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Woolmington v DPP
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Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception.
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R v DPP ex parte Kebeline
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In this area difficult choices may have to be made by the executive or the legislature between the rights of the individual and the needs of society. In some circumstances it will be appropriate for the courts to recognise that there is an area of judgment within which the judiciary will defer, on democratic grounds, to the considered opinion of the elected body or person whose act or decision is said to be incompatible with the Convention.
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Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
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The jurisprudence of the European Court very clearly establishes that while the overall fairness of a criminal trial cannot be compromised, the constituent rights comprised, whether expressly or implicitly, within article 6 are not themselves absolute.
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R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex parte Bennett (A.P.)
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If the court is to have the power to interfere with the prosecution in the present circumstances it must be because the judiciary accept a responsibility for the maintenance of the rule of law that embraces a willingness to oversee executive action and to refuse to countenance behaviour that threatens either basic human rights or the rule of law. If the court is to have the power to interfere with the prosecution in the present circumstances it must be because the judiciary accept a responsibility for the maintenance of the rule of law that embraces a willingness to oversee executive action and to refuse to countenance behaviour that threatens either basic human rights or the rule of law.
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
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Fundamental rights cannot be overridden by general or ambiguous words. This is because there is too great a risk that the full implications of their unqualified meaning may have passed unnoticed in the democratic process. In the absence of express language or necessary implication to the contrary, the courts therefore presume that even the most general words were intended to be subject to the basic rights of the individual.
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R v Powell (Anthony Glassford); R v English (Philip); R v Daniels (Antonio Eval)
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It is just that a secondary party who foresees that the primary offender might kill with the intent sufficient for murder, and assists and encourages the primary offender in the criminal enterprise on this basis, should be guilty of murder. Experience has shown that joint criminal enterprises only too readily escalate into the commission of greater offences. In order to deal with this important social problem the accessory principle is needed and cannot be abolished or relaxed.
- The Criminal Justice (Armed Forces Code of Practice for Victims of Crime) Regulations 2015
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2020
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2020
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2015
- Review: Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2009
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Bringing the Feelings Back: Returning Emotions to Criminal Justice Practice
This article argues that probation policy needs to take much greater account of the important role of emotion in probation and other criminal justice practice. Drawing on the findings of three sepa......Introduction This article begins with the paradox that, on the one hand, recent years have seen emotions largely get written out of probation policy whilst, on the other hand, they remain important to practitioners' accounts of thei......
- Recent Book: Blackstone's Criminal Practice
- Criminal Law & Practice in Scotland
- Webinar: Account Freezing Orders And High Court Civil Recovery: Criminal Practice In A Civil Age
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Protecting Electronic Communications Networks and Services from Cyber-Attack and Data Breach: Enhanced Obligations and Board-level Accountability
The UK’s Electronic Communications (Security Measures) Regulations 2022 (the Regulations) came into force on 1 October 2022, together with the Telecommunications Security Code of Practice (the Code...
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Financial crime and investigations update for UK corporates
The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the past 18 months we have seen two new Acts aimed at combatting financial crime (including the creation of ...... The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the ... financial crime (including the creation of two new corporate criminal offences), the implementation of the Fourth Money Laundering Directive, ... ...
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Financial crime and investigations update for UK corporates
The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the past 18 months we have seen two new Acts aimed at combatting financial crime (including the creation of ...... The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the ... financial crime (including the creation of two new corporate criminal offences), the implementation of the Fourth Money Laundering Directive, ... ...
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Application notice (Pursuant to the Extradition Act 2003)
Forms relating to matters raised in the Administrative Court, including challenges to decisions made by organisations such as local authorities and regulators.... ... Application notices must comply with Part 50 of Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 and 50D of the Criminal Practice Directions and must ... ...
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Apply for a judicial review of a decision
Forms relating to matters raised in the Administrative Court, including challenges to decisions made by organisations such as local authorities and regulators.... ... • Subject to the considerations in Practice Direction 54D 5.2, the general expectation is that ... proceedings will be ... For example, if you were a defendant in a criminal ... case in the Magistrates or Crown Court and are ... making a claim for ... ...
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Form COP44A
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.... ... • unfair dismissal awards ... • money from the criminal injury compensation scheme ... • medical negligence or personal injury ... that you are not realistically able to afford the fee in practice or that there are other ... circumstances which justify remission of the ... ...
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Apply to become someone's deputy (make a declaration)
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.... ... Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence? ... (Do not include convictions spent under the Rehabilitation of ... I will have regard to the Mental Capacity ... Act 2005 Code of Practice and I will apply ... the principles of the Act when making ... a decision ... ...