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A-Z legal terms for young people
**Please note: the A-Z is currently being updated and some information may be out of date.**
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Failure to Surrender
Fair trial
Fines
First Appearance
Fitness to Plead
Foster Care
Foster home
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Gangs
Gaolers
Giving Evidence
Good Character
Grave Crime
Grisso Criteria
Guardian
Guardianship Order
Guilty plea
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Handcuffs
High Court
Hospital Orders
Human Rights Act
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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
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Jail
Joint Enterprise
Judge
Judicial Review (Appeals)
Jurisdiction
Jury
Justices of the peace
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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
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Magistrate
Magistrates’ Court
Media
Mental Disorder
Mode of Trial
Modifications in adult courts
Modifications in the youth court
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National Insurance Number
National Referral Mechanism (NRM)
Newton Hearing
No Further Action (NFA)
Not Guilty
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Oath
Offence
Offender
Officer in the Case (OIC)
Out of Court Disposal (OOCD)
Outcome 21
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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)
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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)
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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
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Tag (electronic monitoring)
Trafficking
Transfer from the police station (s38 beds)
Triage
Trial
Turning 15
Turning 18
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Unconditional Bail
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
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Verdict
Victim
Victim Surcharge
Video-recorded evidence
Voluntary police interview
Vulnerable
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Welfare
Which Court?
Wicket
Witness
Witness Box
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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
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