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In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.
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In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.
* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland ( see Warrenpoint ambush ).
* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.
* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
* 1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
* Adrian Dunbar ( born 1958 ), Northern Ireland actor
* 1998 – Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
Several offences of assault exist in Northern Ireland.
The Criminal Justice ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1968 creates the offences of:
under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.
* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738.
* However, a larger 35ml measure is increasingly used ( and in particular is standard in Northern Ireland ), which contains 1. 4 units of alcohol.
In the United Kingdom, dialects, word use and accents vary not only between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but also within them.
* 19 801-Calls to other parts of the Republic of Ireland, Irish mobile numbers and to landlines in Northern Ireland.
* Ash ( band ), a rock band from Northern Ireland
When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).
Other examples include Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait and Craigavon Bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland.
* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in western Europe
In Northern Ireland it was a poor night for the Ulster Unionists, and despite gaining North Down they lost 5 seats behind them.
For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.
Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.
Northern and Criminal
All distictions between felony and misdemeanour were abolished by section 1 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Law Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1967.
On 14 June 2002 Uganda deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute, and on 16 December 2003 the Government of Uganda referred the situation concerning Northern Uganda to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).
The pieces of legislation governing abortion in Northern Ireland are sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and sections 25 and 26 of the Criminal Justice Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1945 ( which are derived from the corresponding provisions of the Infant Life ( Preservation ) Act 1929 ).
* Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice ( in Northern Ireland )
The Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1988 provided for adverse inferences being drawn for failure to mention something prior to being charged to an offence.
However, Justices of the Peace no longer sat out of petty sessions after 1935 ( Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1935 ).
Northern Territory: Under section 441 ( 2 ) of the Criminal Code of the Northern Territory, any person can arrest another whom he or she finds committing an offence or behaving such that he or she believes on reasonable grounds that the offender has committed an offence and that an arrest is necessary for a range of specified reasons.
When executing a warrant issued in England & Wales or Northern Ireland, a constable may use reasonable force and has specified search powers provided by section 139 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
A constable from England & Wales is subject to the same necessity tests for arrest ( as under section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ) as he would be in England & Wales, a constable from Scotland may arrest / detain if it would have been lawful to do so in Scotland and a constable from Northern Ireland is subject to the same necessity tests for arrest ( as under Article 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 ) as he would be in Northern Ireland.
* in Northern Ireland, the same power of arrest as a constable from Northern Ireland would have under Article 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 ( necessity test ).
* in Northern Ireland, the same power of arrest as a constable from Northern Ireland would have under Article 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 ( necessity test ).
Similarly, staff of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland have certain powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Application to the Police Ombudsman ) Order ( Northern Ireland ) 2009
Northern and Justice
Two motions of no confidence were made by the right-wing opposition ( the Northern League and the ex-Christian Democratic splinter groups CDU-CDR ), against the Justice Minister, Giovanni Maria Flick, and the Interior Minister, Giorgio Napolitano, stating that Gelli had benefited from accomplices helping him in his escape.
* Department of Justice ( Northern Ireland )
He served in various cabinet posts under prime minister Pierre Trudeau, most prominently as Minister of Justice, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
This was led by groups like Campaign for Social Justice ( CSJ ), which became the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ).
The title of QC remains, but in 1998 two Northern Irish barristers ( Seamus Treacy-now Mr Justice Treacy-and Barry Macdonald ) opposed the requirement of swearing an oath of allegiance to the Crown ( Queen Elizabeth II during her reign ).
Even in the U. S. Supreme Court the poem has had its influence: Justice William Rehnquist, in his concurring opinion in Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U. S. 50 ( 1982 ), called judicial decisions regarding Congress's power to create legislative courts " landmarks on a judicial ' darkling plain ' where ignorant armies have clashed by night.
On 27 March 2012, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, John Larkin QC obtained leave from Lord Justice Higgins to bring proceedings against Hain and " Biteback Publishing " for contempt of court.
Although Hain's book Outside In had already been passed by the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office prior to publication, the alleged contempt related to statements about Lord Justice Girvan's disposal of an application for judicial review while Hain was Secretary of State.
Hain's remarks had previously been strongly criticised by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan though the decision to charge Hain with “ scandalising the court ”, using a law already obsolete in 1899 drew ridicule in Westminster and strong criticism from senior DUP ministers.
Examples include Mark Weinberg, now a justice of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Victoria ; Michael Rozenes, now Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria ; Brian Martin, now Chief Justice of the Northern Territory ; John McKechnie, now a justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia ; and Paul Coghlan, now a justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
The Justice ( Northern Ireland ) Act 2002 introduced a new office of Lay Magistrate, to sit alongside resident magistrates at magistrates ' courts in certain matters.
Category: Lords Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Today the monarch only grants pardons on the advice of a government minister: currently the Justice Secretary within England and Wales, the First Minister of Scotland, or the Northern Ireland Secretary.
Policing and Justice was passed to the Northern Ireland Assembly with the devolution of Policing and Justice on 9 March 2010, although direction and control of the PSNI remains under the Chief Constable.
A Sense Of Loss ( 1972 ) looked at Northern Ireland, while The Memory Of Justice ( 1973 ) was an ambitious comparison of US policy in Vietnam and the atrocities of the Nazis.
Having lobbied the Irish government ( but not the British Government nor the Northern Ireland Administration ) for two years to fully investigate the Magdalene laundries ( ignoring the Bethany grouping ), an advocacy group, Justice for Magdalenes, presented their case to the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
In England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the equivalent position is the Lord Chief Justice and in Scotland the equivalent is the Lord President of the Court of Session.
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