What countries does this apply to?
- England
- Wales
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Assessment of action taken on UN Recommendations
The Act sets out your human rights in a series of ‘Articles’. Each Article deals with a different right. These are all taken from the ECHR and are commonly known as ‘the Convention Rights’:
1. Minimum age of criminal responsibility
UN Recommendation
Article 1 says that states must secure the rights of the Convention in their own jurisdiction. The Human Rights Act is the main way of doing this for the UK.
(b) Take legislative and other measures to ensure that: i children are not prosecuted as adult offenders, without exception; ii) the child justice system is applied to all children who were below the age of 18 years when the offence was committed;
- Children are not prosecuted as adult offenders, without exception.
- The child justice system is applied to all children who were below the age of 18 years when the offence was committed.
- Rehabilitation periods are determined based on the date the offence was committed, and not the date of conviction.
- Detention is used as a measure of last resort and for the shortest possible period of time and is reviewed regularly.
- Life imprisonment is abolished for children and young people who committed offences when they were below the age of 18 (CRC, 2023).
The age of criminal responsibility remains 10 years of age in England and Wales. [Source 2]
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Data points of interest
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Published:
10 December 2024
Last updated:
28 January 2025