Library Guides: Law: Criminal Law

Northern Ireland

Below you will find core internet links for covering the criminal justice system. in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland Courts & Tribunal Service
Links to all the major tribunals, other information and publications. See also Judiciary NI for judgments.
Judiciary NI
Judicial decisions and directions, sentencing remarks, information on the Judiciary itself
Department of Justice Northern Ireland
Links to agencies comprising the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland. See Publications links at foot of page for Criminal Justice documents

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Including:

Northern Ireland Office
Court Service of Northern Ireland
Public Prosecutions Service
Police Service of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Prison Service
Probation Board
Each separate site has links to policy documents, full text publications, advice and further contact information.
NI Direct - Crime and Justice
General introductory overview site to the criminal justice system in NI, with links to the major agencies
Committee for the Administration of Justice
While this advocacy group concentrates on human rights, see also the Criminal Justice section
Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland
See excellent links section as well as copies of inspection reports and reviews from 2004 onwards
Statutory Time Limits - A Review
Paper written by Fiona O'Connell, for the NI Assembly, looking at comparisons of statutory and custody time limits in NI, England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

Below you will find core internet links for covering the criminal justice system in England & Wales.

Ministry of Justice
A single point of entry into the various organisations making up the Justice System of England and Wales. Includes links to other constituent bodies, e.g. Youth Justice, Probation, Criminal Cases Review Commission etc.
England and Wales - Home Office - Crime
Policy documents, news, statistics etc. British Crime survey and many other official links.
Courts & Tribunals Judiciary (England and Wales)
Information on the judicial profession. Links also to the Tribunals Judiciary. You can find some Sentencing Remarks for a number of cases in the Media drop down menu.
Law Commission (England & Wales) - Crime
See Ongoing and Completed Projects for information on Homicide, Insanity, Hate crimes, codifying criminal law. Other reports include Assisting or encouraging crime
Supreme Court Decided Cases 2009-
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A searchable database of cases since 31 July 2009
House of Lords Judgments 1996-2009
Centre for Crime and Justice
The webpage is run by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London. See the Resources section for a list of full-text research publications

The Oxford University Press Online Resources Centre contains chapter updates and useful articles and weblinks for a range of core books, including Criminal Law. See below for some specific titles or see the full list:

Law Reform Commission (Republic of Ireland)
See the Current and Completed Projects for Criminal law topics such as Sexual Offences, Defences in Criminal Law and homicide, with links to the full LRC reports
European Court of Human Rights
European Union - Freedom, Security and Justice