A 2023 Criminal Law Legislation Update

This 30-minute webinar (consisting of 20 slides with 4 bullet points per slide) is the 2nd of a series of webinars covering practical topics of relevance to criminal practitioners – in this one Colin will distil the essence of important legislation in 2022 and early 2023 – we all have good intentions to keep up to date with all of this but they don’t make life easy by giving legislation Royal Assent and putting it on the Statute Book and then bringing it into force on a piecemeal basis via Statutory Instrument Commencement Orders – keeping up to date with legislation is important for lawyers, the more so if you are an advocate as the law may have changed quite dramatically as a result of legislation enacted in 2022.

Learning Objectives:

This presentation will cover major areas of criminal legislation enacted in 2022/early 2023 – here are just 6 examples of the things you will learn:

• Some of the changes brought about by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
• Some of the changes brought about by the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022
• Some of the changes brought about by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021
• Amendments to the Codes of Practice under PACE
• The Offensive Weapons Act 2019
• New crimes and new Ancillary Orders