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binding over
The power to bind over to keep the peace and/or to be of good behaviour is a form of preventive justice which can be exercised by justices of the peace. ...
crime investigation by the police
Investigating crime is seen by the public as a primary function of the police. This is reactive, with the police responding to the demands made on them by the public. ...
criminal regulation of public order
By comparison with the interests that are protected by the various criminal offences against the person such as assaults and homicides, and offences against property such as theft and burglary ...
freedom of assembly
Despite the willingness with which the British have taken to the streets and public places to protest against grievances and to celebrate momentous events in the life of the nation ...
keep the peace
To behave in such a way as not to cause or threaten a breach of the peace, i.e. a disturbance of public order. Magistrates' courts have very wide powers to bind over people to keep the peace or to ...
negative rights
This term is used in two senses: in the first sense, it is used to encapsulate the position of civil liberties (often called ‘civil and political rights’) in a national ...
obstructing a police officer
The offence of hindering a police officer who is in the course of doing his duty (Police Act 1996 s 89). “Obstruction” includes any intentional interference, e.g. by physical force, threats, telling ...
picketing
A form of industrial action in which employees gather outside a workplace in which there is a trade dispute, usually a strike. The pickets so gathered often form a picket line, past which they ...
recognizance
N.An undertaking by an offender (or by sureties on his behalf) to forfeit a sum of money under certain conditions. Recognizances may be entered into to answer to judgment, i.e. to appear before the ...
remedies
N.Any of the methods available at law for the enforcement, protection, or recovery of rights or for obtaining redress for their infringement. A civil remedy may be granted by a court to a party to a ...
repossession of goods
English common law, unlike continental systems, historically favoured self‐help by creditors seeking return of their goods. Where credit agreements created security in a debtor's goods for repayment ...
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