Adjusting to COVID-19 under the english criminal justice system: a practitioner’s perspective

• Autores: Rudi Fortson
• Localización: Eucrim: the European Criminal Law Associations' fórum, ISSN 1862-6947, Nº. 2, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Legal effects of COVID-19), págs. 116-122
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From early 2020, the four nations of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) enacted (at the time of writing) some 920 pieces of legislation in which the word “coronavirus” appears in the title. Nearly all of it is secondary legislation and much of it amends earlier versions to reflect changing conditions. There is scarcely any aspect of UK life that has not been subject to, or impacted by, coronavirus legislation that has been enforced, in large part, by coercive criminal sanctions albeit tempered by a significant degree of administrative, policing and prosecutorial discretion. This article discusses that legislation, its impact on the rule of law, on UK constitutional doctrines, on institutions, on the criminal courts, and (above all) on persons whose daily life was severely impacted by COVID-19 legislation.