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New legislation introduces penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
Employment Tribunal decision.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This report concludes the Law Commission's Simplification of Criminal Law: Public Nuisance and Outraging Public Decency project.
Reforms to hate crime laws to make them fairer, and to protect women for the first time.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“the 2012 Act”) creates five new criminal offences. Section 142 - offences…
If your car or other vehicle has seat belts you must use them, with only a few exceptions
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