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Jan 16, 2009 · One of the most useful and most-used powers that criminal courts1 have is the power to bind people over to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace. Magistrates form the view that a person (“the principal”), who might be a person of previously unblemished reputation, is likely to breach the peace or commit criminal offences.
A curious incident in Boston underlines the problem with the king’s peace in eighteenth-century British North America.
In The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire, Lisa Ford skillfully shows that for the British Empire, one of the essential legacies the American Revolution was “the waxing prerogative” (57) and the “vast constitutional license” of colonial peacekeeping (229–30).
Jan 22, 2024 · In the 2022 Queen’s Speech, read by the Prince of Wales to Parliament on 10 May, the British government declared that it was undertaking a ‘leading role in defending democracy and freedom across the world’. Its performance closer to home, however, suggests otherwise.
The concept of the king's peace originated in Anglo-Saxon law, where it initially applied the special protections accorded to the households of the English kings and their retainers. A breach of the king's peace, which could be either a crime or a tort, was a serious matter.
Oct 11, 2023 · The King's Peace initially applied to the special protections accorded to the King's household and retainers. It expanded in the 10th and 11th centuries to particular times (such as holidays), places (such as highways and churches), and individuals (such as legates).
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Magistrates form the view that a person ("the principal"), who might be a person of previously unblemished reputation, is lakely to breach the peace or commit criminal offences.
