Guidelines coming into effect 1 April 2025
The Council’s definitive guidelines for blackmail and kidnap and false imprisonment offences come into effect on 1 April along with a package of changes to ...
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The Council’s definitive guidelines for blackmail and kidnap and false imprisonment offences come into effect on 1 April along with a package of changes to ...
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The Sentencing Council remains of the view that its guideline, Imposition of community and custodial sentences, as drafted is necessary and appropriate. The Lord Chancellor ...
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The Sentencing Council has written to the Lord Chancellor in response to her letter of 20 March 2025 relating to the publication of the revised ...
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The Sentencing Council has written to the Lord Chancellor in response to her letter of 6 March 2025 relating to the publication of the revised ...
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One of the purposes of the revised Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline is to make sure that the courts have the most comprehensive ...
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The Council has published a significantly revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline.
The Imposition guideline sets out the guidance that magistrates ...
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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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The Council has published sentencing guidelines for offenders convicted of motoring offences committed while driving vehicles without the owner’s consent.
The guidelines will come into effect ...
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Sentencing guidelines for offenders convicted of motoring offences committed while driving vehicles without the owner’s consent were published by the independent Sentencing Council today.
The guidelines ...
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The Sentencing Council has published data tables showing current sentencing practice for aggravated vehicle taking and other motoring related matters.
This is in preparation for the ...