Crime and Sentencing in UK Law

  • Jagprit Randhawa and Others v The Queen
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 Enero 2012
    ... ... precision the total losses to the revenue, HHJ Inman (in his sentencing remarks at p5B) concluded: "On the basis of that ... not assist the court in its assessment of the seriousness of the crime. But in general, we are persuaded that such a focus will best assist the ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Abril 1964
    ... ... for the reason that he had not been present at the scene of the crime. He made an alternative submission that if he was present he was still not ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ; R v Same, ex parte Pierson ; R v Same, ex parte Smart ; R v Same, ex parte Pegg
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Junio 1993
    ... ... Lord Mustill My Lords, ... 5 The sentencing of a convicted murderer according to English law is a unique formality ... This singularity is not to be accounted for by the fact that the crime has resulted in the death of the victim, since although the offence of ... ...
  • HH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 Junio 2012
    ... ... Ben Lloyd ... (Instructed by Crown Prosecution Service, Special Crime Division Extradition Unit) ... Appellant (PH) ... Matthew Ryder QC ... In the domestic context it is clearly established that a sentencing judge should have at the forefront of his mind the consequences for the ... ...
  • Norris v Government of the United States of America (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 Febrero 2010
    ... ... reflect increasing international cooperation in the fight against crime ... 6 The relevant treaty in the present case is the Extradition ... that the judge will have regard to the anti-trust violations in sentencing him for obstruction of justice. The Divisional Court, applying Welsh v ... ...
  • Re Findlay
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Noviembre 1984
    ... ... account of the general public concern about the increase in violent crime and of "the growing criticism of the gap between the length of sentences ... ...
  • Polish Judicial Authorities v Adam Celinski and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 06 Mayo 2015
    ... ... but the weight varied according to the nature and seriousness of the crime involved. This was again emphasised by Baroness Hale at paragraph 31, by ... or previous offending history of the offender which the sentencing judge had before him. ii) Each Member State is entitled to set ... ...
  • R v Lang
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 Noviembre 2005
    ... ... or after 4th April 2005, thereby attracting the new mandatory sentencing provisions, in relation to the protection of the public from dangerous ... period, subject to the provisions of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 as to the release of prisoners and duration of ... ...
  • Patel v Mirza
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 Julio 2016
    ... ... as appropriate to reflect Mr Gray's personal responsibility for the crime he had committed. It was therefore right to apply the rule that he could ... causa maxim should apply if it were clear from the judge's sentencing remarks that the claimant's offending behaviour played no part in the ... ...
  • R v Humphrys
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Mayo 1976
    ... ... four of which were: "(1) That a man cannot be tried for a crime in respect of which he has previously been acquitted or convicted ... The sentencing of Parkes to five concurrent terms of one year's imprisonment for his ... ...
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