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Offence specific data collections
The Council conducts targeted and bespoke data collections in magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court to gather detailed sentencing information to support guideline development and ...
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The Council conducts targeted and bespoke data collections in magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court to gather detailed sentencing information to support guideline development and ...
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On 1 December 2020 the Sentencing Code came into effect in England and Wales, consolidating existing sentencing procedure law into a single Sentencing Act.
The Code ...
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These three short leaflets help explain how certain serious offences are sentenced. The Council produced the leaflets in partnership with the Family Liaison and Disaster ...
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The Council collects data directly from courts, which we use to supplement information drawn from a wide range of criminal justice system administrative data sources.
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The Council is supported in its work by the Office of the Sentencing Council (OSC), a small professional body of analysts, researchers and policy, legal ...
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The Sentencing Council sits at the centre of the criminal justice system. The Council develops guidelines that reflect the laws that are decided by Parliament ...
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For adults, all criminal cases begin in magistrates’ courts but some offences can be tried only in the Crown Court, some only in magistrates’ courts ...
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The public sector equality duty (PSED) is set out in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. It is a legal duty that requires public ...
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The Council has a statutory duty to produce a resource assessment for every sentencing guideline we develop.
These assessments help the Council understand the potential consequences ...
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The Council monitors and evaluates the operation and effect of guidelines after they have been implemented. The purpose of this work is to understand:
the ...