PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of meeting: 20 December 2024
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting on 20 December 2024.
Do not retain this copy. Only the online version of a guideline is guaranteed to be up to date.
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting on 20 December 2024.
MCSG UPDATES –
Minor revisions and corrections log: 11 December 2024 Sentencing Council policy on making changes to digital guidelines
The Sentencing Council has established a process for recording minor ...
ARTICLES AND BLOG POSTS –
Strangulation or suffocation was established as a specific offence under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. It was introduced, along with its racially or religiously motivated ...
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
A summary of the responses received to the consultation paper on strangulation and suffocation offences.
NEWS –
The Council has today published a new guideline for judges and magistrates sentencing strangulation and suffocation offences in England and Wales. We have also published ...
MCSG UPDATES –
Definitive sentencing guidelines for the sentencing of strangulation and suffocation offences were published on 17 December 2024 and the online sentencing guidelines now contains these ...
PRESS RELEASES –
The independent Sentencing Council has today published a new guideline for judges and magistrates sentencing strangulation and suffocation offences in England and Wales.
The offence of ...
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A resource assessment for the definitive guidelines for strangulation and suffocation offences.
NEWS –
The Sentencing Council has published data tables showing current sentencing practice for strangulation and suffocation offences.
This is in preparation for the launch of the Council’s ...
PUBLICATION – Statistical bulletin –
Data tables showing current sentencing practice for strangulation and suffocation offences, to accompany the definitive guideline.