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The Sentencing Council has published definitive guidelines on three overarching aspects of sentencing: allocation, offences taken into consideration and totality.
The guidelines, which will come into ...
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The Sentencing Council has published definitive guidelines on three overarching aspects of sentencing: allocation, offences taken into consideration and totality.
The guidelines, which have been issued ...
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The new definitive guideline on drug offences will be used in all courts in England and Wales from 27 February 2012.
The Sentencing Council’s guideline brings ...
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Today the Sentencing Council has published a new definitive guideline on drug offences.
It will bring sentencing guidance together for the first time to help to ...
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The Sentencing Council has published a new guideline for judges and magistrates on the sentencing of drug offences.
The new guideline, which has been issued following ...
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Following a three month period of training and implementation the definitive guideline on burglary offences came into effect on 16 January 2012.
Versions for the Crown ...
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New proposals about how the owners of dangerous dogs should be sentenced by the courts are being announced today, with the launch of a public ...
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The Sentencing Council has launched a 12-week consultation on its proposed guidelines for judges and magistrates to use when sentencing people for dangerous dog offences.
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At the request of the Lord Chancellor, the Sentencing Council has considered the resource effects of proposed changes to Suspended Sentence Orders (SSOs) contained in ...
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The Sentencing Council has published its first annual report since it came into being in April 2010.
The report outlines activities from April 2010 to March ...