Chapter 10 Self-test questions

Juveniles in court proceedings

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. The age of criminality in England and Wales is __. [Please write the number as a word.]

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. Can a media report of a youth court trial, published when it ends, legally identify a school as being the one which the 15-year-old defendant attends? Assume that the court made no order affecting reporting.

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. The Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 amended the law to give youth courts a power to permit the media to identify a convicted defendant in reports of the case. By what criterion must a youth court decide whether the media should be permitted to do this?

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. A juvenile defendant is granted anonymity by a court order made under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. If the order is not subsequently lifted by a court, when does this anonymity expire?

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