Guidelines coming into effect 1 April 2025
The Council’s definitive guidelines for blackmail and kidnap and false imprisonment offences come into effect on 1 April along with a package of changes to ...
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Statement on the revised Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline
The Sentencing Council remains of the view that its guideline, Imposition of community and custodial sentences, as drafted is necessary and appropriate. The Lord Chancellor ...
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Response to the Lord Chancellor on the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline, 27 March 2025
The Sentencing Council has written to the Lord Chancellor in response to her letter of 20 March 2025 relating to the publication of the revised ...
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Response to the Lord Chancellor on the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline, 10 March 2025
The Sentencing Council has written to the Lord Chancellor in response to her letter of 6 March 2025 relating to the publication of the revised ...
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Statement on pre-sentence reports (PSRs) in the revised Imposition guideline
One of the purposes of the revised Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline is to make sure that the courts have the most comprehensive ...
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Comprehensive new guidance on imposing community and custodial sentences
The Council has published a significantly revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline.
The Imposition guideline sets out the guidance that magistrates ...
OVERARCHING GUIDES
Imposition of community and custodial sentences - Effective from (to be confirmed)
Guideline users should be aware that the Equal Treatment Bench Book covers important aspects of fair treatment and disparity of outcomes for different groups in the criminal ...
MCSG UPDATES –
Revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline – 1 April 2025
A revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline was published on 5 March 2025 and the online sentencing guidelines now contains ...
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
Imposition: Final resource assessment
A resource assessment for the definitive revised overarching guideline on the Imposition of community and custodial sentences.
PRESS RELEASES –
Sentencing Council publishes comprehensive new guidance on imposing community and custodial sentences
The independent Sentencing Council has today published a significantly revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline.
The guideline sets out the principles ...