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Consultations
The Sentencing Council wants to hear your views, whether you are an interested member of the public, a criminal justice professional, an academic or someone ...
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The Sentencing Council wants to hear your views, whether you are an interested member of the public, a criminal justice professional, an academic or someone ...
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The Sentencing Council is consulting on proposed revisions to the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline
The proposed revisions reflect changes in legislation, developments in ...
OVERARCHING GUIDES
Draft guideline for consultation only. Draft guidelines should not be taken into account when sentencing.
Guideline users should be aware that the Equal Treatment Bench ...
PRESS RELEASES –
Proposals to revise the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline in England and Wales were published for consultation today by the independent Sentencing Council.
The ...
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
ARTICLES AND BLOG POSTS –
The Imposition guideline sets out the general principles for imposing community orders and custodial sentences, and in what circumstances a custodial sentence can be suspended.
The ...
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A resource assessment for the draft revised overarching guideline on the Imposition of community and custodial sentences.
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We have published a mid-year update to our Business Plan for 2023/24, which summarises changes to the published plan, in particular to the timing of ...
NEWS –
The Council has published the findings of research conducted with sentencers and other legal professionals who use the online sentencing guidelines. In response to the ...
PUBLICATION – Research report –
In the Sentencing Council’s strategic objectives for 2021-2026 we made a commitment to explore how guideline users access, use and interact with the sentencing guidelines on our website.