To make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about bail and about remand otherwise than on bail; to make provision about the employment, payment and transfer of persons detained in prisons and other institutions; to make provision about penalty notices for disorderly behaviour and cautions; and to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises.
Status: Act of Parliament
Current House: Unassigned
Stage: Royal Assent
Sponsored by: Mr Kenneth Clarke, Lord McNally
Introduced: 2011-06-21
Royal Assent: 2012-04-25