Website lists likely punishments – The Times
“Anyone up before a magistrates’ court can now go online to find out the likely sentence for the alleged offence in advance of the hearing.”
The Times, 30th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Category: sentencing
‘Devoted’ husband gets life for killing wife – The Guardian
“A husband who killed his wife after she begged him to help her die was jailed for life today.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ministry may threaten judges’ independence – The Times
“Judges’ independence will come under pressure as they are urged to tailor sentences according to prison spaces under the Ministry of Justice, a former senior Conservative minister said yesterday.”
The Times, 25th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina v. Barot – Times Law Reports
Terrorist conspiracy sentence guidelines require review
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“The level of sentences for terrorist conspiracies and attempts to commit mass murder should be increased.”
The Times, 23rd May 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.
Toddler goading sentences to stay – BBC News
“The Attorney General has said the sentencing of four women who filmed two toddlers fighting will not be referred to the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 18th May 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Bomb plotter Barot has minimum jail term cut – The Times
“Dhiren Barot, the British al-Qaeda terrorist given a life sentence for plotting atrocities in the UK and US, had his minimum jail term cut from 40 to 30 years at the Court of Appeal today.”
The Times, 16th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Sentence extended for lawyer murder – The Times
“One of the two robbers convicted of murdering Linklaters lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce had his minimum custodial term increased by the Court of Appeal today.”
The Times, 14th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Judges seek to retain sentencing powers in prisons crisis – The Guardian
“The new justice secretary, Lord Falconer, is under pressure to find a solution to the prison overcrowding crisis without threatening judicial independence by leaning on judges to pass lighter sentences.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judges are told to cut jail terms for thieves – The Times
“Thousands of petty criminals and thieves will avoid jail under Government plans proposed yesterday to ease the overcrowding crisis engulfing prisons.”
The Times, 10th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Penal policy – a background paper – Ministry of Justice
“The creation of a Ministry of Justice gives us an opportunity to deliver on our objectives of protecting the public, reducing re-offending and sense in sentencing. This paper outlines how an effective penal policy will protect the public and reduce re-offending.”
Penal policy – a background paper (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 9th May 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Regina v C; Regina v Bartley; Regina v Baldrey; Regina v Price; Regina v Broad – Times Law Reports
Reflecting overall criminality
Regina v. C; Regina v. Bartley; Regina v. Baldrey; Regina v. Price; Regina v. Broad
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Where it was appropriate to make an extended sentence consecutive, and one of the sentences was a determinate sentence, that sentence should be imposed first and the extended sentence expressed to be consecutive.”
The Times, 9th May 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.
Indefinite jail terms forecast to treble in the next five years – The Times
“An explosion in the use by the courts of a new indeterminate sentence is predicted to nearly treble the number of prisoners serving an indefinite term in jail to a ‘crisis’ level of 25,000 in five years.”
The Times, 8th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Softer line on crime vetoed as jails fill up – The Times
“A package of measures to head off a summer prison overcrowding crisis, including abolishing the option of custody for shoplifting offences, has been vetoed by Tony Blair, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 8th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Judges ‘may be forced into lighter sentences’ – Daily Telegraph
“Criminals may receive lighter sentences as the result of a new ministry being launched tomorrow, according to England’s most senior judge.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The relationship between state, sentencers and probation (judicial and probation autonomy) by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
The relationship between the state, sentencers and probation (judicial and probation autonomy) (PDF)
Speech by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Probation Boards Association Conference, 2nd May 2007
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Acquaintance rapists’ treated more leniently – Daily Telegraph
“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
Third update to Guideline Judgments Case Compendium – Sentencing Guidelines Council
“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
Regina v. Krivec – Times Law Reports
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.
‘Lenient’ child-fight sentence is reviewed – The Times
“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
Tougher prison sentences ‘have little impact on the flow of drugs’ – The Guardian
“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
