The bill received Royal Assent on 30 October 2007 and became the Serious Crime Act 2007. See the bill’s passage through Parliament. JUSTICE Briefing – House of Lords Second Reading (Part 1 of Bill) – February 2007 JUSTICE Briefing – House of Commons Second Reading – June 2007
Are judges now out of their depth?
October 17, 2007
Are judges now out of their depth? was the timely title Professor Conor Gearty of the LSE chose for his lecture. In an extended metaphor, Professor Gearty imagined the public sphere as a swimming pool. At the shallow end were issues – criminal justice, fair proceedings, civil liberties – where the judicial function was uncontroversial. […]
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill
July 26, 2007
The bill received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007 and became the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. Joint Briefing – House of Commons consideration of House of Lords, Amendments – May 2007 JUSTICE Briefing – House of Lords Grand Chamber, Amendments – December 2006 JUSTICE Briefing – House of Lords Second Reading – December 2006 […]
Mental Health Bill
July 19, 2007
JUSTICE Journal – Volume 4, Number 1
June 1, 2007
Contents of Volume 4 Number 1 Editorial A Ministry of Justice and the rule of law Roger Smith Papers Human rights beyond the hostile headlines: new developments in practice Sir Henry Brooke The second rule of law lecture series organised by the LSE Law Department and Clifford Chance in conjunction with JUSTICE: Introduction: the rule of […]
Control order renewal debate – 2007
March 1, 2007
JUSTICE briefings for the House of Commons and House of Lords debates on the renewal of control order legislation (Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2007). JUSTICE Briefing – House of Lords Debate – March 2007 JUSTICE Briefing – House of Commons Debate – February 2007
Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill
JUSTICE opposed this bill in its entirety. The bill never became law. It was blocked in the House of Lords in March 2007. Former JUSTICE vice-chair, the late Lord Kingland said in the debate “… jury trial has been a central component in the conduct of all serious criminal trials for about the past 700 years. Its contribution […]
Youth justice
January 7, 2007
Why is youth justice a human rights issue? The trial and sentencing of children and young people for criminal offences engages a number of fundamental rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The rights most obviously engaged are Article 2 (right to life), Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment […]
DNA retention by police
What is DNA? DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, the chemical that carries the genetic code for all human life. The study of DNA is important not only for increasing medical knowledge, but also for forensic purposes: because each individual’s DNA is both highly complex and unique to that person (or, at the very least, shared […]
Deportation on grounds of national security
What is deportation on grounds of national security? Under section 15 of the Immigration Act 1971, the Home Secretary has a very broad power to deport any foreign national whose removal from the UK he or she believes would be ‘conducive to the public good’. In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Rehman,(([2001] […]