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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 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 recognised the use of modern technology as a weapon:
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.
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]
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.
All judges in Ireland are full-time and appointed from legally qualified and experienced solicitors and barristers. There are neither lay magistrates nor elected judges. The Criminal Justice Act 2006 established a Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee to advise and report on codification of Irish criminal law. [1]
The Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976 allowed trial in the Republic for crimes committed in Northern Ireland, and vice versa. [18] This arrangement circumvented political and legal difficulties blocking the extradition of suspects in crimes related to The Troubles. [1] The Supreme Court ruled that this Act was constitutional. [16]
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 ...
Mr. Dolny (the appellant) appealed on two grounds: Firstly, he argued that there were ''insufficient particulars'' stated on the European arrest warrant. [1] Secondly, he disputed that there was a corresponding offense under Irish law, similar to the details of his own offense, he said, did not match s.3(1) of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997, the Irish statute under which ...