Committees

Covid-19 and the criminal law

Inquiry

This inquiry examines the way in which the Government has created new criminal offences to ensure people follow restrictions and lockdown, how the criminal law has been adapted to deal with the pandemic, and how covid-19 offences have been enforced, applied and reviewed by the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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4th Report - Covid-19 and the criminal law
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
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Response to this report
Second Special Report - Covid-19 and the criminal law: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2021–22
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Second Special Report - Covid-19 and the criminal law: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2021–22
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Correspondence

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Letter to Dominic Raab MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, dated 21 June 2022, regarding Covid-19 and the criminal law
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
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Letter from Dominic Raab MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, dated 9 June 2022, on Covid-19 and the Criminal Law Report response
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
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Letter to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, dated 25 May 2022, regarding Covid-19 and the criminal law
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
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Oral evidence transcripts

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27 April 2021
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
Witnesses Beverley Higgs JP (Chair at Magistrates Association), Gregor McGill (Director of Legal Services at Crown Prosecution Service), Kit Malthouse MP (Minister of State (Minister of Crime and Policing) at Ministry of Justice), Lord Bethell (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department of Health and Social Care), and Lord Wolfson QC of Tredegar (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Ministry of Justice)
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20 April 2021
Inquiry Covid-19 and the criminal law
Witnesses Sir Jonathan Jones QC (Senior Consultant, Linklaters, and former Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department, March 2014 to November 2020), Pippa Woodrow (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers), Joshua Rozenberg QC (Journalist), and Tristan Kirk (Court Reporter at Evening Standard)
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Written evidence

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The Magistrates Association (COV0014)
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Transform Justice (COV0013)
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Ministry of Justice (COV0012)
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