Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Long title An Act to make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to create offences involving ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a person providing health care or social care; to create an offence of the corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges; to make provision about offences committed by disqualified drivers; to create an offence of disclosing private sexual photographs or films with intent to cause distress; to amend the offence of meeting a child following sexual grooming; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.
Citation 2015 c. 2
Introduced by Chris Grayling
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent 12 February 2015
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made a number of changes to the criminal justice system. It was introduced to the House of Commons on 5 February 2014 by Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling and received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015.[1]

Provisions

The act's provisions include the following:[2][3][4]

Amendments

In committee

In April 2014 the assistant director of the British Board of Film Classification told a Parliamentary Bill Committee that the Clause 16 proposal to criminalise rape pornography would not result in the blocking of scenes of sexual imagery that bear no relation to reality.[13]

In June 2014 the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights claimed that the bill's proposals to allow staff in “secure colleges” to use “reasonable force where necessary to ensure good order and discipline” would contravene the European Convention on Human Rights.[14]

See also

References

  1. "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  2. "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  3. "New criminal justice plans unveiled". Skills for Justice. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  4. "Press release: Criminals to pay towards cost of running courts". www.gov.uk. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  5. Tim Ross (23 February 2014). "Chris Grayling unveils £600 court charge facing all criminals". The Telegraph.
  6. Martin Bentham (5 February 2014). "Jail for jurors who research cases online". London Evening Standard.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Catherine Baksi (5 February 2014). "'Tough package' of criminal justice measures in new bill". Law Society Gazette.
  8. "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill: Extension of the offence of Extreme Pornography (clause 16)" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  9. Padraic Flanagan (4 Feb 2014). "Planning disputes to be fast-tracked through specialist courts". The Telegraph.
  10. "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill (HL Bill 43)". www.publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  11. "Internet trolls face up to two years in jail under new laws". BBC News. 19 October 2014.
  12. "New law to tackle revenge porn". Ministry of Justice. 12 October 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  13. Ben Yates (4 April 2014). "UK Censors Approve Unrealistic rape Porn". Sex and Censorship. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  14. Chris Green (11 June 2014). "Chris Grayling blasted over plans for 'Victorian-style' corporal punishment on young offenders". The Independent.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/18/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.