The Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee is a legal review committee established by Michael McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in 2006 under the Criminal Justice Act 2006.

Recommendations

The committee is chaired by Prof. Finbarr McAuley. It reported in 2011 making recommendations for codification of a number of provisions of

Irish criminal law The Republic of Ireland has no set criminal code. Instead, criminal law is set out in a diverse range of statutes and court decisions. Crime is investigated by the police force, the Garda Síochána. Serious offences are prosecuted by the Director ...

, namely offences against the person, theft and fraud, criminal damage and public order offences, as well as general concepts related to those four areas. A draft

criminal code A criminal code (or penal code) is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal code will contain offences that are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties that migh ...

was published following its work. On publication, Prof. McAuley stated that "The recent publication by Minister for Justice

Alan Shatter Alan Joseph Shatter (born 14 February 1951) is an Irish lawyer, author and former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Sou ...

of the draft criminal code and commentary marks a watershed in Irish criminal law."

Implementation

The draft criminal code prepared by the committee has not as yet been implemented.

References

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