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The Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 [1] is an Act of the Oireachtas which virtually codified the criminal law on offences against the person in the Republic of Ireland. The Act replaced the greater part of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, scrapping such concepts as actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm, and ...
Penal Servitude was abolished in 1997 and changed to imprisonment as per section 11(5) of the Criminal Law Act 1997. Callan took a case arguing that by default of him undergoing a sentence for imprisonment, it entitled him to remission in accordance with the law. He referred to rule 59 of the Prison Rules 2007.
Section 2 of the Criminal Law Act, 1997 defines an arrestable offence as follows: "arrestable offence" means an offence for which a person of full capacity and not previously convicted may, under or by virtue of any enactment or the common law, be punished by imprisonment for a term of five years or by a more severe penalty and includes an ...
Criminal Law Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the Kingdom of Great Britain and later in the United Kingdom, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of Singapore. The term encompasses acts relating to the criminal law, including both substantive and procedural aspects of that law.
The Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011 is an act of the Oireachtas which clarifies the law around self-defence in the home after the case around the death of John Ward. [3] [4] The act explicitly enshrines the castle doctrine into Irish law. [5] It was first used as a defence in 2018. [6]
Instead, criminal law is set out in a diverse range of statutes and court decisions. Crime is investigated by the police force, the Garda Síochána . Serious offences are prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions in the name of the People of Ireland, and are normally tried before a jury , although terrorist, and increasingly organised ...
Gilligan v Ireland [2013] IESC 45; [2013] 2 IR 745; [2014] ILRM 153 [1] is an Irish Supreme Court case where the constitutionality of section 13 of the Criminal Law Act 1976 was challenged. This statutory provision related to the sentencing of those who commit a further crime while in prison.
The following offences were previously under the common law until their repeal and replacement as follows: assault and battery (repealed by the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997) [1] assault occasioning actual bodily harm (repealed by the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 [2]