In law, a committal procedure is the process by which a defendant is charged with a serious offence under the criminal justice systems of all common law...
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Inquests in England and Wales (category Civil procedure)
the new office of treasure coroner with national responsibility. Committal procedure Fatal accident inquiry, Scotland Immunity from prosecution Preliminary...
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Preliminary hearing (category United States criminal procedure)
know that a grand jury is considering the case. Article 32 hearing Committal procedure Grand jury "Trial". Department of Justice. Retrieved 17 May 2020...
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that the committal procedure was separable from the remainder of the section, and that, therefore, only references to the committal procedure were excised...
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Inquisitorial system (redirect from Inquisitorial Procedure)
order committal of the accused, this power being subject to appeal. However, this is no longer authorized, and other judges have to approve a committal order...
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doctors. On 16–17 September, their case was brought to the court for a committal procedure. To prove that there was a case against the accused, Deputy Public...
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needed] There are multiple checks and balances built into the present committal procedures. As in the United Kingdom, the process is generally known as "sectioning"...
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276 of Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, are as follows: imprisonment; periodical imprisonment; declaration as a habitual criminal; committal to an institution;...
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abolished by the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) along with any other process for attachment to the person ('in personam') or for committal of the person for...
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A warrant of committal is a legal term used by the law systems of Canada and the United Kingdom, which allows a magistrate or judge to enforce a judgment...
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Penal notice (category Civil procedure)
In civil procedure a penal notice is a warning endorsed on a court order, which notifies the recipient is liable to committal to prison or to pay a fine...
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directing cases to other higher courts. Such procedures are called committal proceedings. In a committal proceeding, the magistrate has the responsibility...
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Arraignment (category United States criminal procedure)
the first of 11 stages in a criminal trial in the Crown Court following committal from the magistrates' court, and involves the clerk of the court reading...
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Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 or CPIA is a piece of statutory legislation in the United Kingdom that regulates the procedures of investigating...
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The Criminal Procedure Code (Malay: Kanun Tatacara Jenayah), are Malaysian laws which enacted relating to criminal procedure.[not verified in body] The...
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is also able to hear various pre-trial criminal procedures, including bail applications and committal hearings. Decisions of the Magistrates' Court may...
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Contempt of court (category Legal procedure)
civil. The maximum penalty for criminal contempt under the 1981 Act is committal to prison for two years. Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behaviour...
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Pre-trial detention (category Criminal procedure)
2013. Retrieved 21 July 2012. Smith, Gillian (September 2014). "Older Committal Typology: a socio-demographic and criminological profile of people sent...
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civil proceedings is, in general—with a number of exceptions such as committal proceedings for civil contempt—proof on a balance of probabilities. In...
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months' custody The conviction requires more than 12 months' custody Committals may also arise from breaches of the terms of a Community Order or a suspended...
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A hybrid offence, dual offence, Crown option offence, dual procedure offence, offence triable either way, or wobbler is one of the special class offences...
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At the second reading, the principle of the bill is debated. At the committal stage, the entire House of Assembly sits as a committee of the whole house...
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John Straffen (section Committal to Broadmoor)
Prison Horfield in Bristol under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, with his committal paperwork stating Straffen was "not of violent or dangerous propensities...
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service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body...
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indictment. Sections 51 and 52 of, and Schedule 3 to, that Act abolished committal proceedings for such offences and made other provisions in relation to...
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timing: Indicating a guilty plea at the first opportunity (typically the committal hearing in the magistrates' court): one third Pleading guilty at a later...
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been committed to prison for a period of three months but suspended that committal for eighteen months. That technical error, the distinction between committed...
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investigations and reform. The early focus was on involuntary commitment procedures. From 1988 to 1990 the Australian government held the Chelmsford Royal...
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by the situations with Annie and Lily, Alfie decides to change his non-committal ways and settle down with Ruby. However, visiting her, he finds a younger...
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Right to counsel (category Criminal procedure)
government, has the right to ask a judge for counsel within two weeks of committal, and the judge may appoint a lawyer if convinced that the defendant cannot...
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