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Brian Reader (criminal)
Brian Reader, called 'The Guv'nor', was an English career criminal and ringleader of the 2015 Hatton Garden vault burglary and Brink's-Mat gold laundering; jailed in 1986 and 2016, he died in 2023 aged 84.
Brian S. Miller
Brian S. Miller, born Brian Stacy Miller in 1967, is an American district judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.
Brian Schwalb
Brian L. Schwalb is an American politician and Attorney General of the District of Columbia, its second independently elected attorney general, and a former Venable vice chairman.
Brian Steel
Brian Steel (born 1965) is an Atlanta criminal defense attorney, Fordham Law graduate and founder of The Steel Law Firm, known for the Young Thug YSL RICO defense, a unanimously reversed contempt order, and acquittals for Sean Combs and Lil Durk.
Brian T. Stewart
Brian Theadore Stewart, born 1948, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Utah, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Bribery
Bribery: offering or giving something of value to induce improper official or business conduct; a core form of corruption. Covered via FCPA 1977, OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 1997, UK Bribery Act 2010, and 2024-2025 U.S. enforcement changes.
Bridget M. Brennan
Bridget M. Brennan, also known as Bridget Meehan Brennan, is an American district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Bridget S. Bade
Bridget S. Bade, born Bridget Shelton Bade in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit since 2019.
Bridgewater Four
The Bridgewater Four, Patrick Molloy, James Robinson, and cousins Michael and Vincent Hickey, were wrongly convicted in 1979 of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater at Yew Tree Farm; convictions quashed in 1997 after a forged confession was exposed, murder unsolved.
Brigitte Bierlein
Brigitte Bierlein (1949–2024), Austrian jurist; first woman President of the Constitutional Court (2018–2019) and first woman Federal Chancellor of Austria, heading the caretaker government of experts from 3 June 2019 to 7 January 2020.
Briley Brothers
The Briley Brothers were three Richmond, Virginia siblings whose 1979 murder and robbery spree was linked to 11 deaths; Linwood and James were executed in 1984 and 1985 after a record death-row escape.
Bringing Them Home
Bringing Them Home is the 1997 Australian report documenting, for the first time in a government inquiry, the Stolen Generations, and recommending apology, compensation, and reunification.
Brink's-Mat robbery
The Brink's-Mat robbery, 26 November 1983 near Heathrow: six armed men stole 3.5 tonnes of gold worth £26m from the Brink's-Mat depot, Britain's biggest bullion heist, largely laundered and never recovered.
British colonial judges in the Americas
British colonial judges in the Americas were British-trained lawyers, appointed through patronage, who presided over the Crown's courts in North American and Caribbean colonies until decolonisation.
British Columbia Treaty Process
British Columbia Treaty Process: the made-in-BC, six-stage tripartite negotiation framework (First Nations, Canada, BC) established in 1992 and overseen by the BC Treaty Commission, producing modern treaties such as Tsawwassen, Maa-nulth, and Tla'amin.
British firms (organised crime)
British firms are self-organized football supporter groups, such as West Ham's Inter City Firm and Leeds' Service Crew, that arranged match-day violence; some provided opportunity structures for organized crime, declining since the 1990s.
British Hong Kong (英属香港)
British Hong Kong (英属香港): Crown colony of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories, 1841–1997, acquired by the Treaty of Nanking, Convention of Peking, and 1898 99-year lease; returned to China 1 July 1997 under the Joint Declaration.
British judges in Hong Kong and China
British judges served in China's consular courts from 1833 to 1943 and on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal until foreign judges departed in 2024 and 2025.
British National (Overseas) passport
British National (Overseas) passport, or BN(O)/BNO passport: British travel document for holders of British National (Overseas) status created by the Hong Kong Act 1985 for Hong Kong BDTCs before the 1997 handover; non-transmissible, no automatic UK residence, but base for the 2021 BN(O) visa route to settlement.
British nationality law
British nationality law governs who holds the UK's six nationality statuses under the British Nationality Act 1981, in force 1 January 1983, tracing from common law allegiance through the 1948 CUKC era to modern naturalisation and right of abode rules.
British North America Acts
British North America Acts: UK statutes, led by the 1867 Act, that created the Dominion of Canada and served as its constitution until renamed Constitution Acts at the 1982 patriation.
British Post Office scandal
The British Post Office scandal, also known as the Horizon scandal, was the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmasters for shortfalls caused by the faulty Horizon accounting system.
British protectorate
British protectorate: a territory outside the Crown's dominions whose foreign relations Britain exclusively controlled, distinct from colonies and protected states; administered by the Foreign Office, inhabited by British protected persons, and dissolved through decolonization.
British subject
British subject is a UK nationality status: before 1949 it covered nearly everyone connected to the UK, matched Commonwealth citizenship from 1949 to 1983, and since 1 January 1983 under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a narrow residual status held mainly by former British subjects without citizenship and Ireland-connected claimants.
British Supreme Court for China
British Supreme Court for China (Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Japan), a Shanghai-based British extraterritorial court created by Order in Council in 1865, applying English law to British subjects until the 1943 treaty ended extraterritoriality.
Britt C. Grant
Britt Cagle Grant, born 1978, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Eleventh Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Broken windows theory
Broken windows theory, from Wilson and Kelling's 1982 Atlantic essay, holds that visible neighborhood disorder signals absent social control and invites crime; it inspired NYC order-maintenance policing, but meta-analyses find mixed, design-dependent evidence.
Brothel
Brothel: premises where commercial sexual services are provided, often under a licensed operator. Legal status varies by country under four models: prohibition, Nordic end-demand laws, licensing legalization, and decriminalization.
Brother Paul's Children's Mission
Brother Paul's Children's Mission, also called Brother Paul's Nature Camp, was a 1975 Michigan charity front for a child pornography ring on North Fox Island run by Francis Shelden, Gerald Richards, Dyer Grossman, and Adam Starchild; exposed in 1976.
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous Warren ruling that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson's separate-but-equal doctrine.