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Totality guideline: exploring sentencers’ views
The Council has published research looking at the Totality guideline and how it is being used by sentencers. The research explores how useful judges and ...
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Exploring sentencers’ views of the Sentencing Council’s Totality guideline
The Totality guideline is applied by the courts when sentencing an offender either for multiple offences or when they are already serving a sentence. To find out how the guideline is working in practice, the Council carried out a survey and series of interviews with sentencers.
PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of meeting: September 2021
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting on 24 September 2021.
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Miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines
We have opened a consultation asking practitioners who use sentencing guidelines for their views on a series of proposed changes to existing guidelines.
The proposed changes ...
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
Miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines: Consultation
A consultation paper on miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines. Closes 2 December 2021.
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Our criteria for developing or revising guidelines
The overarching aim of the Council in publishing guidelines is to promote a clear, fair and consistent approach to sentencing. In agreeing our work plan, ...
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
Modern slavery offences guidelines: Response to consultation
A summary of the responses received to the consultation paper on the sentencing of modern slavery offences.
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Modern slavery offences sentencing guidelines published
We have published new sentencing guidelines for sentencing offenders convicted of modern slavery offences in England and Wales, following consultation.
The new guidelines will give judges ...
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New sentencing guidelines for modern slavery offences published
The first sentencing guidelines for offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, including slavery, forced labour, human trafficking or an offence committed to facilitate human ...
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
Modern slavery offences: Final resource assessment
A resource assessment for the modern slavery offences definitive guideline.