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MCSG UPDATES –
A revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline was published on 5 March 2025 and the online sentencing guidelines now contains ...
OVERARCHING GUIDES
Guideline users should be aware that the Equal Treatment Bench Book covers important aspects of fair treatment and disparity of outcomes for different groups in the criminal ...
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Foreword
On behalf of the Sentencing Council, I would like to thank all those who responded to the consultation on this important guideline. The consultation garnered ...
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A resource assessment for the definitive revised overarching guideline on the Imposition of community and custodial sentences.
PRESS RELEASES –
The independent Sentencing Council has today published a significantly revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline.
The guideline sets out the principles ...
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Introduction
This document fulfils the Council’s statutory duty to produce a resource assessment which considers the likely effect of its guidelines on the resources required for ...
DROPPABLES –
The electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement is a requirement for the offender to submit to electronic monitoring of their whereabouts (other than for the purpose of ...
DROPPABLES –
An unpaid work requirement requires offenders to undertake work projects in their local community. In some regions, a proportion of these hours can be spent ...
DROPPABLES –
The court imposing a suspended sentence order should determine the length of the suspended custodial term without reference to any time spent in custody on ...
DROPPABLES –
Sentencing mothers with dependent children, pregnant and post-natal offenders
The court should obtain detailed information before sentencing a mother with dependent children or a pregnant or ...