Editing Impeachment (section)

=== United Kingdom===

{{Main|Impeachment in the United Kingdom}}

In the [[United Kingdom]], in principle, anybody may be prosecuted and tried by the two Houses of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] for any crime.<ref name="UK0001">{{cite web|url=https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7612|title=Commons Briefing papers CBP-7612|last=Simson Caird|first=Jack|date=6 June 2016|publisher=[[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] Library|format=PDF|access-date=2019-05-14|archive-date=24 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924124951/https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7612|url-status=live}}</ref> The first recorded impeachment is that of [[William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer]] during the [[Good Parliament]] of 1376. The latest was that of [[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville]] which started in 1805 and which ended with his acquittal in June 1806.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hutchison|first=Gary D|date=2017|title='The Manager in Distress': Reaction to the Impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1805–7|url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/24570/1/24570.pdf|journal=Parliamentary History|volume=36|issue=2|pages=198–217|doi=10.1111/1750-0206.12295|via=|access-date=10 February 2021|archive-date=25 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625102002/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/24570/1/24570.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Over the centuries, the procedure has been supplemented by other forms of oversight including [[Select committee (United Kingdom)|select committee]]s, [[Motions of no confidence in the United Kingdom|confidence motions]], and [[judicial review]], while the privilege of peers to trial only in the House of Lords was abolished in 1948 (see {{section link|Judicial functions of the House of Lords|Trials}}), and thus impeachment, which has not kept up with modern norms of democracy or procedural fairness, is generally considered obsolete.<ref name="UK0001" />