This article is relevant to AQA A-level 3.2 (criminal law) and OCR A-level Unit 1 (criminal law).
Over the last 30 years, and following strong academic and judicial criticisms, law reform bodies have developed a series of proposals for reforming the non-fatal offences in criminal law. While there is an ‘overwhelming case for reform’ (Professor Ashworth of the University of Oxford), a series of governments have made favourable noises about the reform proposals without actually implementing them.To this day, therefore, the frameworks (or ‘ragbag of offences’ according to the late Professor Smith) created by the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Criminal Justice Act 1988, under which 26,000 prosecutions are brought each year, remain in place.
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