NEWS –
Sentencing guideline for drug offences comes into force
The new definitive guideline on drug offences will be used in all courts in England and Wales from 27 February 2012.
The Sentencing Council’s guideline brings ...
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NEWS –
The new definitive guideline on drug offences will be used in all courts in England and Wales from 27 February 2012.
The Sentencing Council’s guideline brings ...
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 24 February 2012.
PRESS RELEASES –
Today the Sentencing Council has published a new definitive guideline on drug offences.
It will bring sentencing guidance together for the first time to help to ...
PUBLICATION – Definitive guideline - archive –
Archived sentencing guideline.
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A final resource assessment for the definitive drug offences guideline.
PUBLICATION – Research report –
Research into the effects of the draft drug offences guideline on sentencing practice.
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
A summary of the responses received to the consultation paper on the sentencing of drugs offences.
NEWS –
The Sentencing Council has published a new guideline for judges and magistrates on the sentencing of drug offences.
The new guideline, which has been issued following ...
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 20 January 2012.
PUBLICATION – Case studies –
Two scenarios intended to familiarise sentencers with the guideline and its step-by-step approach in relation to domestic and non-domestic burglary. These case studies are for illustration only; each individual case must be sentenced according to the factors of that case.