R v Danga

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date17 October 1991
Date17 October 1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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36 cases
  • R v LM
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 4 December 2002
    ...are also, a cause of difficulties that have troubled the Courts in a series of cases starting, for these purposes, with the case of Danga (1992) 94 of the Cr App R 252. That case, and subsequent authorities, were all reviewed in a judgment of a division of this Court, given by Dyson LJ, in ......
  • R v Kevin Robson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 23 June 2006
    ...has to be sentenced on the basis of his age at the date of his conviction, either by the verdict of the jury or by a plea of guilty: see Danga (1992) 94 Cr.App.R. 252 and Robinson (1993) 96 Cr.App.R. 418. 12 The authority cited in these passages in Archbold and Blackstone – the earlier case......
  • R v Jamie Daniel Fort
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 December 2013
    ...21 by the time he was sentenced: see section 89 of the Powers of Crimnal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 and R v Danga (Harbeer Singh) [1992] QB 476 at 480–1. Where an offender aged between 18 and 21 is convicted of an offence for which the sentence is not fixed by law and for which, if he wer......
  • R v Imran Hussain Ghafoor
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 July 2002
    ...appellant, Mr Emmerson QC submits as follows. The sentencing regime applicable to an offender is that current at the date of conviction: see Danga [1992] 94 Cr App Rep 252 and subsequent authorities. But it is wrong in principle, a breach of Article 7 of the ECHR and, therefore, a breach of......
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  • Legal Commentary
    • United Kingdom
    • Youth Justice No. 2-2, August 2002
    • 1 August 2002
    ...aterm of detention in a young offender institution. It is clear from R v Cassidy (2000) Times 13October (following R v Danga [1992] QB 476), a case involving a young man, aged 17 at ageof conviction but aged 18 at point of sentence, that ‘the determining factor in relation tosentencing is, ......

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