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was published, providing for the first time the authoritative collection of acts. In 1816, both Houses of Parliament, passed resolutions that an eminent lawyer with 20 clerks be commissioned to make a digest of the statues, which was declared "very expedient to be done." However, this was never done.
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The Commission recommended that it would not be advisable to make a distinction between the mode of trial between adult and juvenile offenders, except by increasing the summary jurisdiction of magistrates and that the extension of such summary jurisdiction, subject to certain limits, would be a safe
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Some argue that the Commission was heavily guided by Bentham's theory of legislation and that despite never having their work enacted, the Commission's main achievement "was that they succeeded in putting the new science of legislation at the centre of the modern understanding of the criminal law".
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The Commission issued its seventh report on 11 March 1843, providing a digest of criminal law. The Report contained consolidation of remaining offences not included in former reports, observations and amendments on the present system of punishments and a revised completed digest of criminal law.
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to repeal expired statutes and continue consolidation, with a wider remit that included civil law. The Board issued three reports, recommending the creation of a permanent body for statute law reform. On 29 August 1854, the temporary Board was superseded by the
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The Commission proposed in its first report of 1834 emphatically endorsed the codification goal to unify existing common and statute law into a single legislative enactment, leading to criticism from academics. In this context,
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To inquire and report how far it might be expedient to combine both these statutes into one body of the criminal law, repealing all other statutory provisions, or of passing into a law the first-mentioned only of such
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as part of an 1869 resolution criticising the expensive process of legal revision that had taken place over 36 years, costing the country over £80,000 without yielding substantial results.
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to prepare Bills for the codification of criminal law based on the reports of the Criminal Law Commissioners. Two major Bills based on the work of the Commission covering
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The Commission made eight reports, dated 24 June 1834, 20 June 1836, 6 April 1837, 8 March 1839, 22 April 1840, 3 May 1841, 11 March 1843 and 5 July 1845.
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passed a resolution requesting the production of a report on the best mode of reducing the volume of the statute book. From 1810 to 1825,
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By the point that the Commission issued its final report in 1845, the ambition for such a comprehensive legal was dissipating. The
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The Commission issued its second report on 20 June 1836 on defence of prisoners by counsel and the infliction of the death penalty.
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To inquire and report how for it might be convenient to consolidate the other branches of the existing statute law, or any of them
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Present State of the Law: The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P., in the House of Commons, on Thursday, February 7th, 1828
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The Commission provided a draft Act of Crimes and Punishments compromising 24 chapters, under the following heads:
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Proceedings against offenders (otherwise than before magistrates exercising summary jurisdiction), and herein of—
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The Commission issued its eighth and final report on 5 July 1845, providing a digest of criminal law procedure.
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The Commission also proposed to digest the criminal statute law and the common law under the following heads:
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Significantly, the Commission clarified at the start that their work differed from the production of a code:
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introduced a bill embodying the digest, but it was withdrawn on an undertaking by Brougham's opponent,
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To digest into one other statute all the provisions of the common or unwritten law touching the same
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The Commission made several reports, but it has been acknowledged that nothing grew out of them.
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Offences against the Protestant establishment declared to be treasons and misprisions of treason
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Reports from the Royal Commission on the Criminal Law : with appendices and index, 1843-45
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announced his intention to the improvement of the statute law and in March 1853, appointed the
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The Commission issued its fourth report on 8 March 1839 on crimes against person and property.
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To digest into one statute the statutes touching crimes, and the trial and punishment thereof
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on 22 February 1845, who completed and published the Commission's eighth and final report.
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The Commission incurred expenses of £37,158 16s. 10d., which was subject to criticism by
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Reports from the Royal Commission on the Criminal Law with appendices and index, 1834-41
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Reports from the Royal Commission on the Criminal Law with appendices and index, 1834-41
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Reports from the Royal Commission on the Criminal Law with appendices and index, 1834-41
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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Great Britain. Royal Commission for Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law (1971).
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and beneficial alteration of the law that would materially diminish juvenile crime.
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into a coherent set of statutes, coining the verb "to codify". Bentham died in 1832.
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The prevention of offences, or the continuance of offences by summary coercive means
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Proceedings by attachment, and other summary proceedings of the Superior Courts
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Attainder, forfeiture, and other general incidents to conviction and judgement
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that ran from 1833 to 1845 to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of
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Illegal Solicitations, Conspiracies, Attempts, and Repetitions of Offences
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Although the main drafters of the substantive reports of the Commission,
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Legal aspects of the Commission's reports were criticised, including by
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Finding the work congenial and little support in his opinions, in 1836,
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The Commission issued its third report on 6 April 1837 on the trial of
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resigned after signing two reports. Austin was replaced by barrister
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Offences relating to the Coin, and Bullion and Gold and Silver Plate
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The Commission issued its fifth report on 22 April 1840, covering:
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The Commission issued its sixth report on 3 May 1841, covering:
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The Commission issued its first report on 24 June 1834 on the
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later describing him "childish" and "desultory and wayward".
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Offences relating to the Public Property, Revenue, and Funds
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The Commission also proposed a new structure for reporting:
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The Commission issued eight reports and was replaced by the
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The process of accusation, inquiry, judgment and execution
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was the first person to be an aggressive advocate for the
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Royal Commission for criminal law reform (1833–1845)
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Following the death of 983:were introduced in 1853 and continued under 764:Treason and other Offences against the State 358:. The Commission's terms of reference were: 1277:Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons 956:on 6 June 1848 but was not proceeded with. 475:did not get on well with one another, with 410:was appointed Secretary to the Commission. 376:The Commissioners were paid, and included: 356:Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 1280:. 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Index

Royal Commission on the Criminal Law 1833
Royal Commission on Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law
England and Wales
Andrew Amos
John Austin
David Jardine
Charles Henry Bellenden Ker
William Wightman
Thomas Starkie
James John Lonsdale
royal commission
English criminal law
English Criminal Code
Royal Commission on Revising and Consolidating the Criminal Law
jurisdiction
England and Wales
Criminal Code
19th-century
Jeremy Bentham
codification
common law
United Kingdom
Acts of Parliament
Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England
18th-century
19th-century
Commission on Public Records
The Statutes of the Realm
Home Secretary

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