R v Mark Philip Masefield

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeTHE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,MR JUSTICE ROYCE
Judgment Date05 July 2012
Neutral Citation[2012] EWCA Crim 1873
Docket NumberNo. 2012/01047/A7
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date05 July 2012

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3 cases
  • Martin Christopher Bell v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 August 2015
    ...to all discretionary life sentences, whether imposed for homicide or for other serious offences such as rape. 17 He accepted, following R v Masefield [2012] EWCA Crim 1873, that had the judge determined that a determinate sentence must be imposed then the judge would have to calculate that ......
  • R v Martin Bell
    • United Kingdom
    • Crown Court
    • 22 December 2014
    ...he admitted manslaughter. He says that cannot be a right result. 35. On the other hand he accepts, following the case of Masefield [2013] 1 Cr.App.R.(S.) 77, that if a determinate sentence is imposed then the court is required to have regard to the increased severity of sentences now compar......
  • R v Kevin Doherty
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 May 2014
    ...body, a matter which, if dealt with on its own, might have attracted a significant sentence for obstructing the Coroner (see for example R v Masefield [2012] EWCA Crim 1873). The appellant's decision not to tell the family, including her children and her sister, how she died or where her bo......
1 books & journal articles
  • ‘A Vexed Question’: Sentencing Historic Youthful Offending
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Youth Justice No. 17-1, April 2017
    • 1 April 2017
    ...for a case involving sentence of a defendant aged in his mid-40s convicted of manslaughter committed at age 19, see R v Mansfield [2012] EWCA Crim 1873. In a note on historic offending the Sentencing Council (2015) referred to the conviction in 2012 of two men involved in the murder in 1993......

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