Sentencing Guidelines Council
Definitive and Draft Guidelines

This page provides a quick link to definitive and draft guidelines.


Definitive guidelines	Effective from
Assault and Other Offences Against the Person	3 March 2008
Overarching Principles: Assaults on Children and Cruelty to a Child	3 March 2008
Breach of a Protective Order	18 December 2006
Fail to Surrender to Bail	November 2007
Revised Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Guidelines	4 August 2008
Manslaughter by Reason of Provocation	28 November 2005
New Sentences: Criminal Justice Act 2003	4 April 2005
Overarching Principles: Domestic Violence	18 December 2006
Overarching Principles: Seriousness	4 April 2005
Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea	23 July 2007
Robbery	1 August 2006
Sexual Offences Act 2003	14 May 2007
Draft guidelines	Published
Breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order	23 May 2008
Causing death by driving	9 January 2008
Theft and Burglary (non-dwelling)	10 March 2008

For a full list of issues being considered by the Sentencing Guidelines Council or the Sentencing Advisory Panel, follow this link
http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/about/schedule/current.html