three-tier system
A system for allocating cases between Crown Court centres. First-tier centres deal with both criminal and High Court civil cases and are served by High Court puisne judges, circuit judges, and recorders. Second-tier centres deal only with criminal cases, but are served by the same kinds of judge as first-tier centres. Third-tier centres deal only with criminal cases and are served by circuit judges and recorders only.

• jus naturale
• jus quaesitum tertio
• jus sanguinis
• jus soli
• just and equitable winding-up
• jus tertii
• justice
• justice of the peace
• justices’ clerk
• justifiable homicide
• justification
• justifying bail
• just satisfaction
• juvenile court
• juvenile offender
• Kaldor–Hicks efficiency
• keeping
• keep the peace
• kerb crawling
• kidnapping
• kleptomania
• knock-for-knock
• knock-out agreement
• know-how
• knowing receipt