Youth Justice Law in England and Wales

An updated Plea and Trial Preparatory Hearing (PTPH) form has been issued and some of the most significant changes relate to child defendants.

The Law Society have published a report which sets out various problems within the criminal justice system and proposes 11 recommendations for change.

The Youth Justice Legal Centre’s annual Youth Justice Summit took place on 17 May 2019.  The Summit’s theme was Children and the Criminal Courts and…

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.