“Rapists whose victims withdrew their consent to sexual activity at the last moment may receive lighter sentences under guidelines published yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A new update has been published for the Council’s compendium of guideline judgments first issued in March 2005. It includes summaries of recent decisions dealing with the sentencing of dangerous offenders and the approach to sentencing for breach of an anti-social behaviour order. It also summarises judgments relating to specific offences including causing death by dangerous driving/causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs, and health and safety offences.”
Compendium – Third Edition (PDF)
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
Justified leniency is to be commended
Regina v. Krivec (Attorney General’s Reference No. 8 of 2007)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Judges should not refrain from imposing on a defendant the sentence considered appropriate because of apprehension that that might cause the Attorney-General to challenge it as unduly lenient. Leniency where the facts justified it was to be commended, not challenged.”
The Times, 27th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“The Attorney General is to review the suspended prison sentences given to four women who goaded two toddlers into fighting and then filmed them.”
The Times, 25th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The courts are handing out three times as much prison time for drug offences as a decade ago but such ‘get tough’ sentencing has done little to stem the flow of drugs on to the streets, where prices continue to fall, according to a study.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An 81-year-old woman described by a judge as the ‘original neighbour from hell’ has been jailed for six months.”
The Independent, 18th April 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A new sentencing regime in which judges punish offenders according to cost was called for by the former Lord Chief Justice today.”
The Times, 18th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An 81-year-old woman is due to be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after being found guilty of harassment and breaching her Asbo.”
BBC News, 16th April 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jail for unlawful computer access
Court of Appeal
“Police officers had to realise that accessing the police national computer for an improper purpose was an offence that required an immediate prison sentence.”
The Times, 12th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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