Crime & policing: a monster Bill (Pt 1)

02 May 2025 / Michael Zander KC

Issue: 8114 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Criminal , Public

Respect orders, cuckooing & more: Michael Zander KC reports on the provisions of the mammoth Crime & Policing Bill

The Crime and Policing Bill, currently at committee stage, includes many new measures, such as respect orders to tackle anti-social behaviour, new offences related to offensive weapons, and provisions for retail crime and criminal exploitation of children.
The Bill introduces new offences and powers related to sexual offences, and strengthens the law on stalking, spiking, and safeguarding vulnerable groups.
The Bill also includes provisions for public order, police powers, drug testing on arrest, and the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.

The Crime and Policing Bill had an unopposed second reading in the House of Commons on 10 March. The Bill has 15 Parts, 137 clauses and 17 Schedules. It runs to 317 pages.

Antisocial behaviour

Clause 1, ten pages long (!), is about a new concept: ‘respect orders’. These could be imposed by a magistrates’ court on someone over the

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content

If you are already a subscriber sign in

...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

Crime & policing: a monster Bill (Pt 1)

Respect orders, cuckooing & more: Michael Zander KC reports on the provisions of the mammoth Crime & Policing Bill

The Crime and Policing Bill, currently at committee stage, includes many new measures, such as respect orders to tackle anti-social behaviour, new offences related to offensive weapons, and provisions for retail crime and criminal exploitation of children.
The Bill introduces new offences and powers related to sexual offences, and strengthens the law on stalking, spiking, and safeguarding vulnerable groups.
The Bill also includes provisions for public order, police powers, drug testing on arrest, and the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.

The Crime and Policing Bill had an unopposed second reading in the House of Commons on 10 March. The Bill has 15 Parts, 137 clauses and 17 Schedules. It runs to 317 pages.

Antisocial behaviour

Clause 1, ten pages long (!), is about a new concept: ‘respect orders’. These could be imposed by a magistrates’ court on someone over the

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content

If you are already a subscriber sign in

...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

SourceURL:

Links:

E-newsletter Sign-Up

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Read All

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

NEWS

Read All

Assisted dying Bill timetable revised

The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

NLJ this week: Motor finance faces £11bn reckoning

The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers

NLJ this week: Gold on Awaab’s Law & digital divorce

In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives

NLJ this week: AI in the dock—courts need literacy, not fear

Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Landlords lose their upward climb

James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights

Error message

Crime & policing: a monster Bill (Pt 1)

Antisocial behaviour

Antisocial behaviour

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson