Sentencing in UK Law

  • 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 June 1993
    ... ... Lord Mustill My Lords, ... 5 The sentencing of a convicted murderer according to English law is a unique formality. Although it is a very grave occasion it is a formality in this sense, that ... ...
  • Jagprit Randhawa and Others v The Queen
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 January 2012
    ... ... 11 Although it was not possible to calculate with precision the total losses to the revenue, HHJ Inman (in his sentencing remarks at p5B) concluded: "On the basis of that evidence, I am sure this was a vast conspiracy designed to cheat the revenue of ... ...
  • HH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 June 2012
    ... ... In the domestic context it is clearly established that a sentencing judge should have at the forefront of his mind the consequences for the children if their sole carer is sent to prison and consider whether on ... ...
  • Bolton v The Law Society
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 December 1993
  • Re Findlay
    • House of Lords
    • 15 November 1984
  • Booth v Parole Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 09 October 2013
    ... ... Article 5, in particular, is implemented through several areas of the law, including criminal procedure, the law relating to sentencing, mental health law and administrative law: indeed, article 5(4) is said to have been inspired by the English law of habeas corpus ( Sanchez-Reisse v ... ...
  • R v Lang
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 November 2005
    ... ... in each, the offences were specified violent or sexual offences committed on or after 4th April 2005, thereby attracting the new mandatory sentencing provisions, in relation to the protection of the public from dangerous offenders, contained in sections 224 to 229 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 ... ...
  • R v Soneji (Kamlesh Kumar)
    • House of Lords
    • 21 July 2005
    ... ... it has not been given such notice, that it would be appropriate for it so to proceed, to act as follows before sentencing or otherwise dealing with the offender in respect of that offence or any other relevant criminal conduct." ... The succeeding subsections of ... ...
  • Polish Judicial Authorities v Adam Celinski and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 06 May 2015
    ... ... will seldom have the detailed knowledge of the proceedings or of the background or previous offending history of the offender which the sentencing judge had before him. ii) Each Member State is entitled to set its own sentencing regime and levels of sentence. Provided it is in ... ...
  • R v Billam
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 February 1986
    ... ... for rape or attempted rape, in order to give us an opportunity to restate principles which in our judgment should guide Judges on sentencing in this difficult and sensitive area of the criminal law ... 2 In the unhappy experience of this Court, whether or not the ... ...
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