Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO[2]) is a statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted by the coalition government of 2010-2015, creating reforms to the justice system.[3] The bill for the act was introduced in the House of Commons on 21 June 2011, and received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012.[3]

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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012[lower-alpha 1]

United Kingdom
Long title	An Act 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 referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about the collection of fines and other sums; 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; to make provision about the rehabilitation of offenders; to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises and of causing serious injury by dangerous driving; to create a new offence relating to squatting; to increase penalties for offences relating to scrap metal dealing and to create a new offence relating to payment for scrap metal; and to amend section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.
Citation	10
Introduced by	Kenneth Clarke
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	1 May 2012
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.