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A

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  • Absolute Discharge
  • Abuse of Process
  • Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) Interviews
  • ACPO Gravity Matrix
  • Acquittal
  • Adjournment
  • Admissible
  • Adult
  • Adult Co-defendant
  • Adverse Inferences
  • Affirm
  • Age
  • Age Assessment
  • All Options Open
  • Alleged
  • Allocation and sending procedure
  • Anonymity
  • Anti-Gang Injunctions
  • Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction (ASBIs)
  • Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO)
  • Appeal
  • Appropriate Adult
  • Arrest
  • Asperger Syndrome
  • AssetPlus
  • Attendance
  • Attendance of Parents and Guardians
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Attorney General Reference (AG Reference)
  • Autism
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

B

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  • Bad Character
  • Bail
  • Bail Appeals
  • Bail Applications
  • Bail conditions
  • Barrister
  • Beijing Rules
  • Bench
  • Binding Over
  • Binding Over Parents and Guardians
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Brain Development
  • Breach
  • Breach of Bail
  • Burden of Proof

C

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  • Care (Local Authority Duties)
  • Case Stated
  • Caution
  • Cell
  • Certificate for Assigned Advocate (Certificate for Counsel)
  • Chambers
  • Charge
  • Charging Guidance for Police and Prosecutors
  • Child
  • Child giving evidence
  • Child in Need
  • Child jointly charged with an adult
  • Child Trafficking
  • Children’s Home
  • Clerk of Court
  • Co-defendants
  • Code for Crown Prosecutors
  • Committal for sentence
  • Communication disorder
  • Community Sentence
  • Compellability
  • Compensation order
  • Competent
  • Conditional Bail
  • Conditional Discharge
  • Confession
  • Confidentiality
  • Consent
  • Conspiracy
  • Contempt of Court
  • Conviction
  • Counsel
  • Court
  • Court of Appeal
  • Credit (for guilty plea)
  • Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO)
  • Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)
  • Criminal Offences
  • Criminal Record
  • Criminal Record Check
  • Cross Examination
  • Crown Court
  • Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
  • Curfew
  • Custody
  • Custody Sergeant

D

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  • Dangerousness (Dangerous Offenders)
  • Death in Custody
  • Decision to Prosecute
  • Defence
  • Defendant
  • Deliberate
  • Detained
  • Detention and Training Order (DTO)
  • Determining Age
  • Disability
  • Discontinuing a Case
  • Dismissing a case
  • District Judge
  • Diversion
  • Dock
  • Duress
  • Duty Solicitor

E

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  • Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans
  • Effective Participation
  • Either Way Offence
  • Electronic Monitoring
  • Enhanced criminal record check
  • EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Evidence
  • Examination in chief
  • Experts
  • Extended Sentences

F

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  • Failure to Surrender
  • Fair trial
  • Fines
  • First Appearance
  • Fitness to Plead
  • Foster Care
  • Foster home

G

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  • Gangs
  • Gaolers
  • Giving Evidence
  • Good Character
  • Grave Crime
  • Grisso Criteria
  • Guardian
  • Guardianship Order
  • Guilty plea

H

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  • Handcuffs
  • High Court
  • Hospital Orders
  • Human Rights Act

I

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  • In Camera
  • In Chambers
  • Inadmissible
  • Indictable Offence
  • Indictable-Only Offence
  • Injunctions for Anti-Social Behaviour
  • Instructions
  • Intensive Supervision and Surveillance (ISS)
  • Interests of Justice
  • Intermediary
  • Interpreters

J

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  • Jail
  • Joint Enterprise
  • Judge
  • Judicial Review (Appeals)
  • Jurisdiction
  • Jury
  • Justices of the peace

L

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  • Lay Bench
  • Learning difficulty
  • Learning disability
  • Leaving Care
  • Legal Advisor
  • Legal Aid (Public Funding)
  • Legal Aid Agency
  • Legal Privilege
  • Licence
  • Live link
  • Local Authority
  • Local Authority Accommodation
  • Local Authority Duties
  • Looked After Child

M

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  • Magistrate
  • Magistrates’ Court
  • Media
  • Mental Disorder
  • Mode of Trial
  • Modifications in adult courts
  • Modifications in the youth court

N

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  • National Insurance Number
  • National Referral Mechanism (NRM)
  • Newton Hearing
  • No Further Action (NFA)
  • Not Guilty

O

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  • Oath
  • Offence
  • Offender
  • Officer in the Case (OIC)
  • Out of Court Disposal (OOCD)
  • Outcome 21

P

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  • PACE Codes
  • Paralegal
  • Parenting Order
  • Parole Board
  • Pathway Plan
  • Persistent Offender
  • Personal Adviser
  • Plea
  • Police interview
  • Police Officer
  • Police Station
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pre Sentence Report (PSR)
  • Pre-Recorded Cross Examination
  • Pre-Recorded Examination in Chief
  • Previous (convictions)
  • Prison
  • Privilege
  • Probation
  • Proceed in absence
  • Proof
  • Prosecution
  • Prosecutor
  • Prove
  • Public
  • Public Funding (Legal Aid)

R

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  • Recall (Licence)
  • Referral Order
  • Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
  • Remand to Local Authority Accommodation (RLAA)
  • Remittal
  • Reparation Order
  • Reporting Restrictions (Anonymity)
  • Reprimands
  • Restorative Justice
  • Restraint
  • Retire
  • Risk of Serious Harm Assessment (ROSHA)

S

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  • Scaled Approach
  • Section 38 beds
  • Section 91 sentences
  • Secure Accommodation
  • Secure Children’s Home
  • Secure Docks
  • Secure Training Centre
  • Security
  • Sentence
  • Severance
  • Sex Offenders Register
  • Sexting
  • Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)
  • Social Media
  • Social Services
  • Social Worker
  • Solicitor
  • Special Educational Needs (SEN)
  • Special Measures
  • Spent Conviction
  • Standard of Proof
  • Statement
  • Statement of Special Educational Needs
  • Stop and Search
  • Street Bail
  • Subject Access Request
  • Summary Offences
  • Summons
  • Surety
  • Surrender
  • Suspended Sentence
  • Swear

T

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  • Tag (electronic monitoring)
  • Trafficking
  • Transfer from the police station (s38 beds)
  • Triage
  • Trial
  • Turning 15
  • Turning 18

U

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  • Unconditional Bail
  • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

V

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  • Verdict
  • Victim
  • Victim Surcharge
  • Video-recorded evidence
  • Voluntary police interview
  • Vulnerable

W

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  • Welfare
  • Which Court?
  • Wicket
  • Witness
  • Witness Box

Y

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  • Young Offender Institution (YOI)
  • Youth Caution
  • Youth Conditional Caution
  • Youth Court
  • Youth Detention Accommodation (YDA)
  • Youth Justice Board
  • Youth Justice System
  • Youth Offending Team (YOT)
  • Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO)
  • Youth Sentences
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