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Expanded explanations in guidelines
Judges and magistrates across England and Wales will have access to expanded explanations embedded in offence specific guidelines. The expanded explanations add extra information to ...
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Judges and magistrates across England and Wales will have access to expanded explanations embedded in offence specific guidelines. The expanded explanations add extra information to ...
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Judges and magistrates across England and Wales hand down sentences to over 1 million offenders a year for criminal offences. To make sure that there ...
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The Sentencing Council has published new guidelines for manslaughter offences today, which set out for the first time comprehensive guidance for courts sentencing these very ...
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In reports about crimes where money or property are taken, “theft”, “burglary” and “robbery” are terms often used interchangeably. There are, however, very clear differences ...
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There are three basic types of assault offence set out in law – common assault, actual bodily harm (ABH) and wounding / grievous bodily harm ...
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New sentencing guidelines for magistrates come into force on 24 April 2017 following their publication earlier this year.
One of the offences covered is speeding and ...
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By Lauren Bowes, Senior Researcher
As part of the Sentencing Council’s analysis and research strategy, this week we began a programme of data collection for robbery ...
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By Lauren Bowes, Senior Researcher
From the 19th September to December 2016, the Sentencing Council will begin the final phase of a data collection exercise for ...
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By Jill Gramann, Magistrate member of the Sentencing Council
When judges and magistrates are faced with offenders who have targeted victims who have disabilities, the ...
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The principle that guilty pleas should be taken into account in sentencing is nothing new – Parliament has set this in law. The purpose of ...