A-Z legal terms for young people

A

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• ABA
• ABC
• 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
• AIM2 and AIM3
• 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
• 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
• Bail Supervision and Support (BSS)
• 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 Gravity Matrix
• 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
• First Time Entrant
• 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 School
• 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 Custody Service
• Youth Detention Accommodation (YDA)
• Youth Justice Board
• Youth Justice System
• Youth Offending Team (YOT)
• Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO)
• Youth Sentences