Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
Long titleAn Act to make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to create offences involving ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a person providing health care or social care; to create an offence of the corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges; to make provision about offences committed by disqualified drivers; to create an offence of disclosing private sexual photographs or films with intent to cause distress; to amend the offence of meeting a child following sexual grooming; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.
Citation2015 c. 2
Introduced byChris Grayling
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent12 February 2015
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made a number of changes to the criminal justice system. It was introduced to the House of Commons on 5 February 2014 by Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling and received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015.[1]

  1. ^ "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015". UK Parliament. Retrieved 5 February 2014.