Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment in UK Law

  • Simmons v Castle
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Julio 2012
    ... ... the reforms to civil costs contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No 27/2013); R v Burinskas; R v Phillips
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 04 Marzo 2014
    ... ... to a consideration of the effect upon sentencing of amendments to the dangerous offender ... Justice Act 2003 ( CJA 2003) made by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act ... ...
  • R (on the application of Haney) v Secretary of State for Justice
    • Supreme Court
    • 10 Diciembre 2014
    ... ... Since the abolition of capital punishment in 1965, the most severe form of sentence imposed ... reliably be estimated at the time of sentencing ( R v Hodgson (1967) 52 Cr App R 113 and R ... or their equivalent: see section 122 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Pierson
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Julio 1997
    ... ... 's sentence was sufficiently akin to a sentencing exercise to attract the basic principle that a ... the circumstances of the case, for the punishment of the murderer. The Home Secretary fixes the ... of the power which adversely affect the legal rights of the citizen or the basic principles on ... ...
  • Re McC. (A Minor)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Noviembre 1984
    ... ... not been previously sentenced to that punishment by a court in any part of the United Kingdom ... ( a ) he applied for legal aid and the application was refused on the ground ... certain specific and limited powers of sentencing. If he has conducted an authorised trial but does ... ...
  • Jsc Bta Bank (Respondent / Claimant) v Mukhtar Ablyazov
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 Noviembre 2012
    ... ... to the guidance given by this court in sentencing Mr Kythreotis for contempt at [2011] EWCA Civ ... a serious matter, which merits condign punishment. (ii) Condign punishment for such ... this context the Bank needs to establish a legal or equitable right. 20. If that is ... ...
  • Matthew v Trinidad and Tobago
    • Privy Council
    • 07 Julio 2004
    ... ... of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment". But section 6(1) provides that "nothing in ... (section 74), is thereby exercising a sentencing function which properly belongs to the judiciary ... itself has been the subject of acute legal controversy; it is accepted that the provisions ... ...
  • R v Abu Hamza
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 Noviembre 2006
    ... ... Indeed could therefore we have legal aid for my solicitors so? ... SIR IGOR ... to remove his citizenship by way of punishment for the conduct in respect of which he was ... in the light of any trial post the sentencing hearing, after hearing submissions from counsel ... ...
  • Boyce et Al v R
    • Privy Council
    • 07 Julio 2004
    ... ... be subject to "an inhuman or degrading punishment". But section 26 says that no existing law "shall ... Governor General … But it is not a sentencing function and the Advisory Council is not an ... working assumption, in the interests of legal certainty and to secure an orderly transfer of ... ...
  • 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
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 Mayo 1992
    ... ... 1965 Act provided that: "On sentencing any person convicted of murder to imprisonment ... these categories, may merit no less punishment to mark the seriousness of the offence ... All appellants to have legal aid taxation. The order guashing the Home ... ...
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