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BILL OF DEBT, BILL OBLIGATORY, contracts(law)
justice(dictionary)
justice(2)(dictionary)
justice(encyclopedia)
justice(1)(dictionary)
Justice(medicine)
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE(law)
miscarriage of justice(dictionary)
Justice of the Peace(dictionary)

Criminal Justice Bill, the (oh)



a series of changes to British law in 1995, officially called the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which changed the law relating to a person's right to silence (=their right to say nothing when the policearrest them, or when they are on trial in a court of law) , and also made the laws against squatting (=living in a building without the owner's permission) and trespassing (=being on someone's land without their permission) much stricter.