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The Crime and Courts Bill would establish a new National Crime Agency to combat organised crime, and contains provisions for reforms of the courts system (including judicial appointments and to allow broadcasting of certain court proceedings) as well as provisions on immigration, drug driving and community sentencing. This Library Note provides background reading in advance of the Bill’s second reading in the House of Lords.
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This Lords Library Note provides definitions of human trafficking, statistics on its incidence, and an outline of domestic and international policy to combat the problem.
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This Library Note provides background information in advance of the second reading in the House of Lords of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
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This Library Note provides background information in advance of the Protection of Freedoms Bill’s second reading in the House of Lords.
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This Library Note provides background reading for the debate on the report 'Our Vision for Safe and Active Communities'.
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This Library Note provides background reading for the second reading debate of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill.
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This Library Note provides background reading for the debate on the UK’s record on legislation regarding bribery, tax avoidance, corruption and money laundering.
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Debate on 14 October 2010: Human trafficking. House of Lords Library Note 2010/022
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Crime and Security Bill (HL Bill 45 of 2009–10) The Crime and Security Bill is wide-ranging. It contains provisions to reduce the reporting requirements on the police when they stop and search individuals; to set out a statutory framework for the retention and destruction of biometric material, including DNA data; to provide the police with the power to issue “go” notices to alleged perpetrators of domestic violence; to extend injunctions for gang-related violence to 14-17 year-olds; to require courts to make parenting orders when a young person breaches an ASBO; to introduce a licensing scheme for wheel-clamping businesses; to create a new criminal offence of possessing a mobile phone in prison; to create a new offence of failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent a person under 18 from having unauthorised access to an air weapon; to compensate the victims of overseas terrorism; to enable licensing authorities to restrict the sale of alcohol between 3am and 6am; and to give the police new powers to search a person subject to a control order. The Bill has completed its passage through the House of Commons and is due for a second reading debate in the House of Lords on 29th March 2010. This House of Lords Library Note focuses on the debates on the retention and destruction of DNA data on the National DNA Database. It also gives brief details of the other parts of the Bill that were discussed at report stage in the Commons.
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Coroners and Justice Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2009/004
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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2008/001
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Serious Crime Bill. House of Lords Library Note 2007/001
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