Today, Peel's Acts continues to be a topic of great relevance and interest in society. With the advancement of technology and globalization, Peel's Acts has become an increasingly frequent topic of discussion in different areas, from politics to popular culture. Its impact and scope cover a wide spectrum of aspects of daily life, making it a topic of constant study and reflection. In this article, we will explore different perspectives and approaches related to Peel's Acts, with the aim of better understanding its influence today and its projection in the future.
Peel's Acts (as they are commonly known) were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. They consolidated provisions from a large number of earlier statutes which were then repealed. Their purpose was to simplify the criminal law. The term refers to the Home Secretary who sponsored them, Sir Robert Peel.
Some writers apply the term Peel's Acts to the series of Acts passed between 1826 and 1832. Other writers apply the term Peel's Acts specifically to five of those Acts, namely chapters 27 to 31 of the session 7 & 8 Geo 4 (1827).
The acts replaced by the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861
James Edward Davis said that the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861 are new editions of Peel's Acts. The acts listed below were replaced by the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. There were two separate sets of broadly identical Acts for England and Ireland respectively.
The first four acts on this list consolidated 316 acts, representing almost four-fifths of all offences.[citation needed]
10 Geo. 4. c. 34, sometimes referred to as the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 and as the Offences Against the Person Act (Ireland) 1829
John Frederick Archbold. Peel's Acts, and all the other Criminal Statutes passed from the First Year of the Reign of George IV to the Present Time. Third Edition. Saunders and Benning. Fleet Street, London. 1835. Volume 1.
George Pyne Andrewes. An Abridgement of Mr. Peel's five important Acts of Parliament just passed for the improvement of the Criminal Law. London. 1827. Catalogue.
The Late Acts of Parliament amending the Criminal Law of England, commonly called Peel's Acts. James Ross. Hobart Town. 1830. Catalogue. Bibliography.
John Tidd Pratt. A Collection of the late Statutes, passed for the Administration of Criminal Justice in England; comprising 7 Geo. IV., Cap. 64, 7 & 8 Geo. IV., Cap. 18, 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31. Second Edition. W Benning. Fleet Street, London. 1827. Google Books.
The Six Acts Passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His Present Majesty for Further Improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in England. Edward Dunn and Son. Fleet Street, London. 1827. Google Books.
The Annual Register . . . of the Year 1827, pages 185 to 187.
William C M'Dermott. The Criminal Code for Ireland, as amended by the late Enactments. Printed for John Cumming. Dublin. 1829. Google Books.
Citations
^James Fitzjames Stephen. A History of the Criminal Law of England. Macmillan and Co. London. 1883. Volume 2. Pages 216 and 217. Encyclopædia Britannica. Eleventh Edition. 1911. Volume 7. Page 485. "Stephen's History of the Criminal Law" (1883) 133 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 731 at 735 (No 812 June). "Art IX - The Criminal Law of England" (1864) 18 Law Magazine and Law Review 139 at 153 and .
^William Robinson. An Analysis of, and Digested Index to the Criminal Statutes. Saunders and Benning. London. 1829. Page v.
^"Preliminary Note". Halsbury's Statutes of England. (The Complete Statutes of England). First Edition. 1929. Volume 4. Page 255.
^Thomas James Arnold. The Law Relating to Municipal Corporations in England and Wales. Page x.
^Evan James MacGillivray. Insurance Law relating to all Risks other than Marine. Sweet and Maxwell, Limited. Chancery Lane, London. 1912. Page xi
^"Criminal Laws - Ireland" in "Abstract of Important Public Acts". The Companion to the Almanac, or Year-Book of General Information; for 1829. (The British Almanac). Charles Knight. London. Page 161. Thomas Stephen. The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain. Glasgow. 1835. Pages 319 and 320.
^James Edward Davis. The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Chapters 94 to 100. Butterworths. London. Hodges, Smith & Co. 1861. Pages vi and vii.
^Dyson and Green. "The properties of the law". Dyson (ed). Unravelling Tort and Crime. Cambridge University Press. 2014. Chapter 14. pp 389–400.