Practice Statement: Life Sentences
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 31 May 2002 |
| Date | 31 May 2002 |
| Court | Supreme Court of Judicature |
Judge
Kennedy LJ (handed down on behalf of Lord Woolf CJ)
Practice Statement: Life Sentences
Issue
The factors to be taken into account in setting the minimum term to be served for punishment and deterrence.
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168 cases
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Queen v Trevor Hamilton
...for the fixing of minimum terms in life sentence cases remains the Practice Statement issued by Lord Woolf CJ and reported at [2002] 3 All ER 412. Carswell LCJ had referred to this in paragraph [10] of the judgment in McCandless in the following way: - “In a number of decisions given when i......
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James Cahill
...by the Secretary of State before December 2002 would have notified. This entails following the Guidance given in the Practice Statement (Crime: Life Sentences) [2002] 1 WLR 1789. ("Stage 2"); (c) Then to fix the lower of the two periods reached at Stages 1 and 2 ("Stage 3").; and finally (d......
- R v White
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R v SLW, 2018 ABCA 235
...Act 2009, c.25, s. 118) and prepared very valuable analytical sentencing frameworks (Practice Statement (Crime: Life Sentences), [2002] 1 W.L.R. 1789). [55] Coroners and Justice Act 2009, c. 25, s. 125(1). See The Queen v. Blackshaw, 2011 EWCA Crim 2312, ¶13 (“when formulating guidelines on......
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4 books & journal articles
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The Remains of the Day—Whole Life Sentences after Bieber
...re-production of this case was not quite correct, though. The case centred11 Above n. 10 at 769.12 [2000] QB 152.13 [2001] 1 AC 410.14 [2002] 1 WLR 1789.15 Ibid. at [18]. 16 See Rv Bieber [2008] EWCA Crim 1601 at [16].17 D. Van Zyl Smit, ‘Is Life Imprisonment Constitutional? The German Expe......
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Is a Ligature a “Knife or Other Weapon”? R v Morgan [2018] EWCA Crim 954; [2018] WLR (D) 177
...advance. This advice was accepted by Lord Woolf CJ in Practice Statement (Crime: Life 296 The Journal of Criminal Law 83(4) Sentences) [2002] 1 WLR 1789 and confirmed in Practice Direction (Criminal Proceedings: Consoli-dation) [2002] 1 WLR 2870, Following the enactment of the Criminal Just......
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Sentencing Children for Violent Extremism: Part 1
...guideline decision in R v McCandless (2004) NICA 1 (adopting the Practice Statement (PS) of the Chief Justice for England and Wales (2002) 3 All ER 412 that had governed the approach to minimum terms prior to the statu-tory framework introduced by the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) 2003 Schedul......
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Murder: Sentencing
...the Practice Direction (Crime:Mandatory Life Sentences) (No. 2) [2004] 1 WLR 2551 at 2556); PracticeStatement (Crime: Life Sentences) [2002] 1 WLR 1789; Practice Direction(Criminal Proceedings: Consolidation) [2002] 1 WLR 2870), whereas Sched.21 did not, provision had to be made to fill th......