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DROPPABLES –
Draft guideline for consultation only. Draft guidelines should not be taken into account when sentencing.
Where no offence-specific guideline exists, refer to General guideline: ...
DROPPABLES –
The court should first reach the appropriate sentence for the instant offences, taking into account totality in respect of the instant offences alone. The court ...
DROPPABLES –
more than one offence of causing serious injury in a single incident of dangerous driving. possession of several prohibited weapons and/or ammunition acquired at the same ...
DROPPABLES –
other offences sentenced alongside possession of a prohibited weapon (which attracts a five year minimum term) – any reduction on grounds of totality should not ...
NEWS –
We have published our business plan 2022/23 setting out the work the Council will undertake in the coming year to meet our statutory objectives and ...
PUBLICATION – Corporate reports –
The Sentencing Council business plan 2022/23 sets out the work the Council aims to undertake in the year to March 2023 to meet our statutory objectives and the objectives we set ourselves in our five-year strategy.
NEWS –
The Sentencing Council has published two draft sentencing guidelines for sentencing retailers convicted of selling knives to children under 18 in England and Wales.
The two ...
PRESS RELEASES –
Draft sentencing guidelines for sentencing retailers including large organisations and individual shop owners convicted of selling knives to children in England and Wales were published ...
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
A consultation paper on the sentencing of the offence of sale of knives etc to persons under 18.
OFFENCES
Draft guideline for consultation only. Draft guidelines should not be taken into account when sentencing.
Where no offence-specific guideline exists, refer to General guideline: ...