Current guidelines | Archived draft guidelines
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30 June 2009 |
Overarching principles – Sentencing youths On Tuesday 30 June 2009, the Sentencing Guidelines Council published a draft guideline on the principles which apply when courts sentence young offenders. The guideline is set in the context of new laws for sentencing young people which are expected to come into force later this year.
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25 February 2009 |
Sentencing for fraud – statutory offences This draft guideline encompasses a wide range of statutory offences of fraud, including those in the Fraud Act 2006. Common law offences (such as cheating the public revenue and conspiracy) which are generally reserved for the most serious cases of fraud are not included in the guideline. It is derived from advice received from the Sentencing Advisory Panel which was published at the same time. The guideline identifies different types of fraudulent activity and provides five guidelines based around those types.
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30 March 2006 |
Custodial Sentences of less than 12 months This draft guideline for the new "custody plus" sentence has been developed in expectation that the legislative provisions will be implemented in autumn 2006. Those provisions will replace the existing provisions relating to custodial sentences of less than 12 months. The Council has issued guidelines in relation to parts of the framework that have already been introduced. This draft guideline covers both the circumstances in which the new sentence should be used and the way in which individual sentences should be structured.
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| 16 February 2006 |
Allocation This draft guideline covers the legislative and other factors that should influence the decision whether an either-way offence is retained for trial in a magistrates‘ court or sent to the Crown Court to be dealt with (the allocation decision).
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