Criminal Procedure Act 1851

The Criminal Procedure Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was drafted by Charles Sprengel Greaves. Stephen said that compared to earlier legislation on defects in indictments, the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 "went further in the way of removing technicalities, but it did so by an enumeration of them, so technical and minute, that no one could possibly understand it who had not first acquainted himself with all the technicalities which it was meant to abolish."

Criminal Procedure Act 1851
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for further improving the Administration of Criminal Justice.
Citation14 & 15 Vict. c. 100
Dates
Royal assent7 August 1851
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1986
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The whole Act was repealed by Part I of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

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