The concept of Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) was introduced in England and Wales in 1998. An application for an Antisocial Behaviour Order may be made in the Magistrate’s Court. A District Council, Chief Constable, or Northern Ireland Housing Executive may apply for an Antisocial Behaviour Order in respect of a person aged 10 or over, […]
The Fines and Penalties (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 contains the principal general legislation on fines. Where a person is convicted on indictment of an offence, whether punishable only on indictment or on indictment or on summary conviction, and would be liable to a fine not exceeding a specified amount, he shall, by virtue of the […]
There is provision for compensation orders against convicted persons. Where a person is convicted of an offence, the court, instead of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way, may make an order, compensation order requiring him to pay compensation for personal injury, loss, or damage resulting from the offence or any […]
The 2002 Criminal Injuries Compensation (NI) Order legislates for a scheme of criminal injuries compensation to be made by the Department of Justice. The scheme shall provide circumstances in which awards are to be made; the categories of persons to whom they may be made. The scheme shall be known as the NI Criminal Injuries […]
The Department of Justice is the authority responsible for providing, maintaining, and the general regulation, direction, and superintendence of prisons and prisoners. The Secretary of State may continue to exercise functions that he exercised immediately prior to the devolution of policing and justice functions, notwithstanding the transfer of those functions to the Department under the […]
Where a prisoner under a sentence is discharged by temporary discharge, the currency of his prison sentence is suspended from discharge until the date of reception back into prison. Every person who has been sentenced to prison or ordered to be detained in a young offender’s center, who is at large without an unlawful excuse, […]