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Ad hoc commissions. Committees, enquiries and Public Enquiries. |
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A Review of the Criminal Courts of England
and Wales (Lord Justice Auld) |
Lead to the
Criminal Justice Act 2003. |
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Modernising Justice (Lord Woolf) |
Lead to
Access to
Justice Act 1999. |
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Committee of Inquiry (Baroness Warnock 1984) |
Lead to
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. |
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Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Cleveland (Butler-Sloss 1988) |
Lead to
Children Act 1989. |
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Committee on Obscenity (Williams 1979) |
Not implemented. |
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Brixton Riots (Lord Scarman 1981) |
BBC news video,
here.
The majority of the Scarman Report's recommendations, found favour with
the opinion makers and were included in the Police and Criminal
Evidence Act of 1984. This Act of Parliament sets out the way in which
the Police Officers should carry out their roles and stated specific codes
of practice for police procedures.
It also established the rights of people who are detained by the police
for a suspected crime or offence. |
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Independent Commission on the Electoral System (Jenkins 1998) |
Unlikely to be implemented. |
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The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
(Sir William Macpherson) |
One
recommendation enacted by the
Race Relations
(Amendment) Act 2000.
Law Commission
report
Double Jeopardy and Prosecution Appeals (2001) which recommended – in
the case of murder - the abolition of the rule that one cannot be tried
twice for the same offence.
This rule was effectively removed for serious offences and
now a defendant can be arrested and tried again following acquittal.
More detail on double jeopardy,
here. |
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The Bloody Sunday Enquiry |
Inquiry into the events of
January 1972 when 13 people in a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
march were shot dead by British soldiers. We await the result.
Enquiry website
here. |
