Current guidelines | Archived draft guidelines
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27 October 2009 |
Corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death On Tuesday 27 October, the Sentencing Guidelines Council published a draft guideline on corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death. This is the first offence guideline relating to sentencing organisations rather than individuals, and concerns sentencing for offences where the most serious form of harm was caused, the death of one or more persons. The guideline takes a different form from that used for most other offences. It sets out the key principles relevant to assessing the seriousness of the range of offences covered which may involve a wide variation in culpability. Principles concerning the assessment of financial penalties are also provided and consideration is given to the additional powers available to a court imposing sentence for these offences.
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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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