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Sentencing Council wins Guardian award
The Sentencing Council has won a Guardian Public Services award for work on its drug offences guideline. The award, for evidence-based policy making, was given ...
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The Sentencing Council has won a Guardian Public Services award for work on its drug offences guideline. The award, for evidence-based policy making, was given ...
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The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has announced the appointment of Chief Constable Lynne Owens as a non-judicial member of the Sentencing ...
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 16 November 2012.
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 12 October 2012.
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The Sentencing Council has launched a short animated film for victims and witnesses of crime explaining how sentencing works and the types of sentence offenders ...
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Update 9 to the Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Guidelines (the update on the Victim Surcharge) has been published.
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 14 September 2012.
PRESS RELEASES –
From 20 August 2012, courts in England and Wales will be adopting a tougher approach to the way those convicted of dangerous dog offences are ...
PUBLICATION – Case studies –
A selection of scenarios intended to familiarise sentencers with the dangerous dog offences guideline and its step-by-step approach. These case studies are for illustration only; each individual case must be sentenced according to the factors of that case. Please note these case studies do not take into account the changes to dangerous dogs legislation in 2014.
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Following a three month period of training and implementation the definitive guideline on dangerous dog offences came into effect on 20 August 2012.