R v Fontes (Ricardo)
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judge | MR JUSTICE NELSON |
Judgment Date | 15 July 2005 |
Neutral Citation | [2005] EWCA Crim 2103 |
Date | 15 July 2005 |
Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
Docket Number | No: 05/2520/A8 |
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8 cases
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R v Creed
...distinguished. (3) R. v. Dennis, Grand Ct., Ind. 3 of 2001, unreported, considered. (4) R. v. Fontes, [2006] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 401l; [2005] EWCA Crim. 2103, considered. (5) R. v. Fraser, [2004] EWCA Crim. 2306, referred to. (6) R. v. Gonzalez, [2003] 2 Cr. App. R. (S.) 35; [2002] EWCA Crim......
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R v SH
...with the impact specifically on sentencing of a defendant's old age and its attendant infirmities. We mention briefly two cases: R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103 and R v Heron [2009] EWCA Crim 94. In both those cases this court reduced sentences passed on account of the old age of the appel......
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R v Ambrozine Heron
...the age of 80 is in any sense a cut-off, but it is a factor that must be given weight. 13 We are assisted by the decision in R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103 (Nelson and Henriques JJ, 15 July 2005), in which the appellant, who was a man aged 75, pleaded guilty to an offence of importing a q......
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1 books & journal articles
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Sentences of Imprisonment and the Physically Disabled Prisoner: C (R) v HM Advocate [2019] HCJAC62; 2019 SLT 1243; 2020 SCCR 20
...ordebilitating conditions: for example in R v Anderson [1999] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 273; RvW(The Times 26October 2000); R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103; R v Mendel Rand [2007] EWCA Crim 840; RvHeron [2009] EWCA Crim 94 and R v Happe [2010] EWCA Crim 893, the appellants had been elderly,and so......