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Leading experts in the field of sentencing gathered to explore important and current sentencing-related issues at a seminar jointly hosted by the Sentencing Council, Sentencing ...
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Today we submitted the Sentencing Council’s evidence in response to the call for evidence issued by the Independent Sentencing Review 2024-2025. Led by the Rt ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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We have published the Council’s response to an independent research review of the guideline for sentencing offences committed within a context of domestic abuse.
The research ...
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This report will contain findings from a research review that explores sentencers’ understanding, interpretation, implementation, application and thoughts about the Sentencing Council’s overarching guideline on ...
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The Sentencing Council is looking to appoint two non-judicial members with either recent relevant or current experience of academic research into criminology or criminal law ...
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The Sentencing Council has published a review of existing research looking at the effectiveness of sentencing.
We commissioned the review from an independent academic to further ...