{"id":534,"date":"2008-05-17T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-05-17T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T17:19:19","slug":"criminal-justice-bill-received-royal-assent-on-8th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Justice Bill received Royal Assent on 8th May, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 finally is law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Criminal Justice and Immigration Act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/acts\/acts2008\/plain\/ukpga_20080004_en_1\">Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008<\/a> will (amongst other things):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> introduce a new criminal of offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation<\/li>\n<li> clarify the law on self defence, articulating the state&#8217;s responsibility to stand by those acting in good faith when using force in self defence<\/li>\n<li> introduce a minimum tariff of two years for prisoners serving indeterminate public protection sentences<\/li>\n<li> end automatic discounts for offenders given an indeterminate sentence after the initial sentencing decision has been judged unduly lenient<\/li>\n<li> give powers for courts to make dangerous offenders given a discretionary life sentence serve a higher proportion of their tariff before being eligible for parole<\/li>\n<li> create a presumption that trials in magistrates&#8217; courts will proceed in the event the accused fails to appear<\/li>\n<li> Introduce a new offence of possession of extreme pornographic images<\/li>\n<li> provide for non-dangerous offenders who breach the terms of their licence to be recalled to prison for a fixed 28 day period<\/li>\n<li> create a Youth Rehabilitation Order &#8211; a generic community sentence for children and young offenders, this will target the causes of offending behaviour and will simplify the current sentencing framework<\/li>\n<li> create the Youth Conditional Caution for young offenders<\/li>\n<li> bring compensation for those wrongly convicted broadly into line with compensation for victims of crime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the sections of the Act commence on Royal Assent, some two months later, some by Commencement Order.<br \/>\nMany changes to the syllabus will have to be made.<br \/>\nAlmost as if the draftsman wanted to confuse students, section 9 amends section 142 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and states the purposes of sentencing offenders under 18 the word deterrent is not used, but implied in \u2018prevention offending\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 will (amongst other things): introduce a new criminal of offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation clarify the law on self defence, articulating the state&#8217;s responsibility to stand by those acting in good faith when using force in self defence introduce a minimum tariff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}