Criminal Code of England and Wales

The jurisdiction of England and Wales does not have a Criminal Code though such an instrument has been often recommended and attempted. The creation of such a Code would require both consolidation and codification.

The Law Commission views a comprehensive criminal code as desirable in principle, but not currently feasible as a single undertaking. Its present approach is incremental simplification of discrete offence-areas and procedural law, creating code-ready statutes over time.

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