Certain common law offences abolished
The following offences at common law are abolished— • the offence of perverting the course of justice, • the offence of attempting or conspiring to pervert the course of justice, • the offence of falsely accusing a person of a crime or of procuring a person to falsely accuse a person of a crime, • the offence of concealing evidence so that a person is falsely accused of a crime, • the offence of attempting to pervert the course of justice by assisting a person to avoid arrest, • the offence of persuading a person to make a false statement to police to mislead them in their investigation, • the offence of procuring a person to make a false accusation, • the offence of misprision of felony, • the offence of compounding a felony, • the offence of dissuading, intimidating or preventing, or attempting to dissuade, intimidate or prevent, a person who is bound to give evidence in a criminal matter from doing so, • the offence of using threats or persuasion to witnesses to induce them not to appear or give evidence in courts of justice, • the offence of perjury, • the offence of embracery (attempting to corrupt, influence or instruct a jury or to induce a jury to favour one side more than the other), • personating a juror.
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