Children under 10 cannot be prosecuted as they are below the age of criminal responsibility.
Judgments about Holmes' criminal responsibility and punishment now will be left to a jury.
The age of criminal responsibility is also 10 in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Lord Sheldon described the age of criminal responsibility as a "problem" when it came to avoiding unnecessary sentencing of young offenders.
The report notes the concern of some neuroscientists that the current age of criminal responsibility in the UK is set too low.
Advances in neuroscience suggest the age of criminal responsibility - 10 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - might be too low, according to a study.
Calls from England's children's commissioner to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 were rejected by the government in in March 2010.
While noting that the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland is 12, the justice minister said there were "no plans to review" the age of 10 in England.
Among other measures, the Second Protocol specifies the sanctions to be imposed for serious violations of the Convention and defines the conditions in which individual criminal responsibility shall apply.
Her lawyer, Yves Repiquet, told the AFP news agency she would now "finally have the opportunity to provide the court with explanations and clarifications that will exonerate her of any criminal responsibility".
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"This is clearly a smoking gun in the area of criminal responsibility, especially as it pertains to Mr. Quattrone, " Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin , the state's top securities regulator, told USA Today.
"We look forward to an inquiry that is truly independent and looks not only at potential criminal responsibility but also at Britain's co-operation agreements with the United States and other countries, " says Mr Cordone.
The attack on the civilians, "who did not take part in the fighting", was not done knowingly and directly, or out of haste and negligence "in a manner that would indicate criminal responsibility", the letter said.
The minister said the majority of people who had responded to the proposal were in favour of raising the age of criminal responsibility, and that the majority of cases at this age were already dealt with "largely through care" rather than the courts.
In 2009, amidst publicity regarding its enforcement efforts with respect to the Swiss banking giant UBS, the IRS offered the OVDP as a means by which taxpayers who had failed to report offshore accounts could resolve criminal and civil responsibility.
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The focus is almost entirely on the police, even though PCCs will have broader responsibility for criminal justice.
When Emily's mood and more significantly her behavior takes a startling turn for the worse, the story turns toward issues of responsibility for criminal acts.
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"This is about guilt, about avenging a crime, about responsibility for a criminal act, " he told told Deutschlandfunk public radio.
They were attacked by invisible attackers with no identities, no barbaric values, no moral responsibility, and no criminal culpability.
The new regulation includes criminal prosecution, removes the rate setting responsibility from the banks, and removes the BBA as administrator.
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Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
The decision applies only to California, but its broader implications were clear: When a state sends a criminal to prison, it takes on the responsibility to feed and care for him, Justice Kennedy wrote.
"He attacks the people he has the responsibility to protect, " the International Criminal Court said in a statement.
"Director Freeh has expressed to me his complete agreement with my judgment that our joint responsibility to protect the integrity of ongoing criminal investigations and prosecutorial decision-making requires that we decline to provide the memorandum, " Reno wrote.
Collective responsibility for all board members for any corporate criminal or civil offenses. (I do not know the American legal equivalents for these).
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Those of you who have practiced on one side or the other in the criminal justice system know that that system places a special responsibility on prosecutors.
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As with all of the UN-assisted criminal tribunals, it is not possible to try all offenders at every level of responsibility.
And people who are in America illegally have a responsibility -- to pay their back taxes and admit responsibility for breaking the law, pay a penalty, learn English, pass criminal background checks, and get right with the law -- or face removal -- before they can get in line and eventually earn their citizenship.
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The responsibility to develop strategies for dealing with coming challenges to U.S. security not only from criminal elements and terror-sponsoring states, but also from great powers like China and Russia.
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