요약
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 is a wide-ranging criminal justice statute. It strengthened protections for emergency and other public-service workers (Part 1), placed a 'serious violence duty' on local agencies to collaborate to prevent violence and introduced offensive weapons homicide reviews (Part 2), and significantly expanded police powers over public processions, assemblies, and one-person protests (Part 3), including a new statutory offence of intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance. It also made extensive sentencing and release changes (Part 7), including 'Harper's Law' — a required life sentence for the unlawful manslaughter of an emergency worker — and increased maximum penalties for a range of serious offences.
핵심 포인트
- Increased penalties for assault on an emergency worker (s.2) and a required life sentence for the manslaughter of an emergency worker — 'Harper's Law' (s.3)
- Serious violence duty (Part 2, Chapter 1) requiring specified authorities to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence
- Offensive weapons homicide reviews (Part 2, Chapter 2)
- Expanded police powers to impose conditions on public processions (s.73) and assemblies (s.74), and on one-person protests (s.79)
- New offence of intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance (s.78)
- Wide sentencing and release reforms (Part 7), including higher maximum penalties for causing death by dangerous driving
편과 조
개정 이력
2023 — Public Order Act 2023
Created further protest offences (such as locking on and tunnelling) and adjusted the 'serious disruption' threshold relevant to the public order powers in this Act.