Crime and Disorder Act 1998
1998 c. 37 · 172 provisionsView on legislation.gov.uk
An Act to make provision for preventing crime and disorder; to create certain racially-aggravated offences; to abolish the rebuttable presumption that a child is doli incapax and to make provision as to the effect of a child’s failure to give evidence at his trial; to abolish the death penalty for treason and piracy; to make changes to the criminal justice system; to make further provision for dealing with offenders; to make further provision with respect to remands and committals for trial and the release and recall of prisoners; to amend Chapter I of Part II of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 and to repeal Chapter I of Part III of the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997; to make amendments designed to facilitate, or otherwise desirable in connection with, the consolidation of certain enactments; and for connected purposes.
- Brown v The Parole Board for Scotland, The Scottish Ministers and another [2017] UKSC 69
- In the matter of an application by Lorraine Gallagher for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2019] UKSC 3
- Jones v Birmingham City Council and another [2023] UKSC 27
- Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] UKSC 45
- R (on the application of Noone) v The Governor of HMP Drake Hall and another [2010] UKSC 30
- R (on the application of Pearce and another) v Parole Board of England and Wales [2023] UKSC 13
- R (on the application of Stott) v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] UKSC 59
- R (T and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another [2014] UKSC 35
- R v Reeves Taylor [2019] UKSC 51
- R v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] UKSC 2
- Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
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