Criminal Justice in UK Law
-
R v Maxwell
“
Here a stay will be granted where the court concludes that in all the circumstances a trial will "offend the court's sense of justice and propriety" (per Lord Lowry in R v Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court, Exp Bennett [1994] 1 AC 42, 74G) or will "undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system and bring it into disrepute" (per Lord Steyn in R v Latif and Shahzad [1996] 1 WLR 104, 112F).
-
R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
“
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.
-
Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
“
It is the general right accorded to all litigants not to have the outcome of any pending appellate or other legal process pre-empted by executive action. By ratifying a treaty which provides for individual access to an international body, the Government made that process for the time being part of the domestic criminal justice system and thereby temporarily at least extended the scope of the due process clause in the Constitution.
-
Re S (A Child) (Identification: Restrictions on Publication)
“
What does, however, emerge clearly from the opinions are four propositions. First, neither article has as such precedence over the other. Secondly, where the values under the two articles are in conflict, an intense focus on the comparative importance of the specific rights being claimed in the individual case is necessary. Thirdly, the justifications for interfering with or restricting each right must be taken into account. For convenience I will call this the ultimate balancing test.
Thirdly, it is important to bear in mind that from a newspaper's point of view a report of a sensational trial without revealing the identity of the defendant would be a very much disembodied trial. If the newspapers choose not to contest such an injunction, they are less likely to give prominence to reports of the trial. Certainly, readers will be less interested and editors will act accordingly. Informed debate about criminal justice will suffer.
-
R v DPP ex parte Kebeline
“
My Lords, I would rule that absent dishonesty or mala fides or an exceptional circumstance, the decision of the DPP to consent to the prosecution of the Respondents is not amenable to judicial review.
-
R v Looseley
“
Every court has an inherent power and duty to prevent abuse of its process. By recourse to this principle courts ensure that executive agents of the state do not misuse the coercive, law enforcement functions of the courts and thereby oppress citizens of the state. It is simply not acceptable that the state through its agents should lure its citizens into committing acts forbidden by the law and then seek to prosecute them for doing so.
- Book Review: Criminal Justice
-
Comparative Criminal Justice
How can the study of comparative criminal justice avoid the opposite dangers of ethnocentrism and relativism? The problem is examined taking as an example Cavadino and Dignan's recent analysis of d...
- Book Review: Comparative Criminal Justice
- Book Review: Understanding Criminal Justice: Sociological Perspectives
- Criminal Justice And Courts Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent
- The Impact Of Social Media On Criminal Justice System
- Criminal Justice: How Best To Stop Economic Crime
-
Criminal justice: How best to stop economic crime
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, address...
-
Make a schedule of available or realisable assets
Crown Court forms including the form to extend a representation order.... ... Drug Trafficking Act 1994 ... Criminal Justice Act 1988 ... 2 The prosecutor considers that the assets ... ...
-
Judicial review claim - criminal injuries compensation cases, England and Wales
Forms to appeal decisions by certain first-tier and other tribunals and organisations. Includes social security and child support, and mental health appeals.... ... The Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (Wales), ... Civil Justice Centre, ... 2 Park Street, ... Cardiff, ... CF10 1ET ... The Upper Tribunal office will let you know when it has ... ...
-
Statutory declaration (Vehicle emissions) - Unpaid penalty charge
Traffic Enforcement Centre forms, including the form to challenge an unpaid penalty charge notice.... ... a Solicitor), a Justice of the Peace (at any Magistrates Court) or an officer of your local County ... Important: Filing a false declaration knowingly and wilfully is a criminal offence under Section 5 of the Perjury Act 1911 and you may be imprisoned ... ...
-
Application to file a statutory declaration out of time
Traffic Enforcement Centre forms, including the form to challenge an unpaid penalty charge notice.... ... a Solicitor), a Justice of the Peace (at any Magistrates Court) or an officer of your local county ... Important: Filing a false declaration knowingly and wilfully is a criminal offence under Section 5 of the Perjury Act 1911 and you may be imprisoned ... ...