Criminal Justice Bill

Criminal Justice Bill
Criminal Jus|tice Bill, the
a series of changes to British law in 1995, officially called the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which changed the law relating to a person's right to silence (=their right to say nothing when the policearrest them, or when they are on trial in a court of law) , and also made the laws against ↑squatting (=living in a building without the owner's permission) and ↑trespassing (=being on someone's land without their permission) much stricter.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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