Youth Justice Law in England and Wales

The Michael Sieff Foundation and The Nuffield Foundation facilitated a Roundtable event to discuss where Parliament, Government and the Judiciary are planning to go or should be going next on youth justice, particularly in relation to the youth court. The report following the Roundtable has now been published.

Outcome code 22 is a police outcome code which was introduced in April 2019.

The College of Policing briefing is a summary of evidence on factors associated with carrying knives, as well as strategies and interventions to tackle knife crime. It aims to inform decisions about approaches to tackling knife crime.

The High Court found that arresting a volunteer at the police station was not a reasonable course of action by the police.

The eighth amendment to the Criminal Practice Directions 2015 was issued by the Lord Chief Justice on 28th March 2019 and comes into force on 01 April 2019.

Three individuals admitted contempt of court for publishing information about Thompson and Venables in breach of an injunction and were sentenced to suspended custodial sentences.

State of Children's Rights 2018, Children's Rights Alliance England, published March 2019 The Children's Rights Alliance England (CRAE) have published their annual report on the…

The Court of Appeal ruled that a sentence of Detention in a Young Offenders Institution (DYOI) could only run concurrently to a period of detention imposed for breaching the conditions of the supervision element of a Detention and Training Order (DTO) by virtue of committing new imprisonable offences.