The power to bind over an offender, to keep the peace and be of a good behaviour, dates back to the Middle Ages.\u00a0 A person may be bound over where he is convicted of an offence involving disorderly behaviour, which may be replicated in the future.\u00a0 The order may be made in addition to imprisonment.\u00a0 The defendant may be obliged to put forward sureties who are bound by recognisance to the condition that he keep the peace.<\/p>\n
The power binding over is equivalent in some respects to a suspended sentence\u00a0 Failure to comply with the terms means that the relevant sum of money under the recognisance is forfeited.\u00a0 Failure to enter the recognizance may be punished by imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Modern legislation confirms that a court may require a person to be bound to keep the peace and of good behaviour without imposing a fine or term of imprisonment.\u00a0 The discretion must be used within constitutional parameters.<\/p>\n
There is no right of appeal, but the binding over may be the subject of judicial review. The procedure has been challenged on grounds of constitutionality and upheld, notwithstanding that it incorporates elements of preventive justice.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview The jurisdiction to bind a person to the peace or good behaviour is ancient and was recognised by statute in the 14th century.\u00a0 The Courts Acts provide that the jurisdiction may be exercised by the judges of the District Court, the Circuit Court and Superior Courts. The jurisdiction is most exercised in the District […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}