The Court of Appeal was the authority on sentencing guidelines until the Sentencing Guidelines Council was set up in the wake of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
The Sentencing Guidelines Council published a compendium of guideline judgments in March 2005. You can download a PDF version here. To download the document, you may first need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat reader.
New cases have recently been added to the database. The first update was issued in November 2005. View first update. The second update was issued in June 2006. View second update.
The third update was issued in April 2007. View third update.
Note on changes to the third update to the compendium.
The database below contains the cases included in the original compendium and is updated up to June 2006. For the most recent authorities, please refer to the third update published in April 2007 above. A fully revised and updated version of the compendium and database will be published shortly
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On Friday 21st September, an addendum was published to the Sentencing Guidelines Council’s Compendium of Court of Appeal Guidelines - it relates to the dangerous offender provisions and brings together key judgments, setting them in the context of the statutory provisions; the document also contains two flow charts to help in ensuring that the proper stages are followed in the decision making process.
Running to over 40 pages, it includes cases decided up to the end of July 2007.
Dangerous Offenders – Guide for Sentencers and Practitioners
