“A postman who claimed he was traumatised into stealing parcels after going on the Disneyland roller coaster Thunder Mountain, was spared jail yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A hospital security guard who planted a fake bomb where he worked prompting a six-hour security alert has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Justice secretary’s plans for improving sentencing offer nothing new.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Louise Casey, Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses, has welcomed the Government’s response to its ‘Breaking the Cycle’ Green Paper.'”
Ministry of Justice, 21st June 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Related link: Breaking the Cycle: Government Response, Cm 8070 (PDF)
“A high court judge has been put on probation and ordered to pay £5,000 costs for a ‘dangerous and unpleasant’ attack on his wife.”
Full story
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron has announced plans to impose a surprise tough ‘two strikes and you’re out’ mandatory life sentence in a move that looks set to dash justice secretary Kenneth Clarke’s hopes of stabilising the record 85,000 prison population in England and Wales.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Live coverage as controversial justice bill is accidentally published early.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government has today confirmed its intention to press ahead with controversial reforms to legal aid with the publication of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. It also plans wholesale implementation of the Jackson reforms of civil litigation costs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The former chief executive of the £357m shell company Langbar International, which collapsed six years ago leaving shareholders with big losses, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and banned from being a company director for five years. The Serious Fraud Office said he was guilty of ‘fraud on a grand scale’.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron has forced Kenneth Clarke to abandon all plans for 50% sentence discounts for early guilty pleas, after an outcry on the Tory right and in the tabloids.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A drink-driving milkman arrested while in his float on an early morning round has been banned for 18 months.”
BBC News, 20th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who killed his friend with a single blow to the head has been jailed.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“For the purposes of deciding the starting point for determining the minimum term to be served by a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment on conviction of murder committed with a knife the fact that the defendant had taken a knife from the kitchen of a home to another room in the same home, even if a locked door was forced, did not mean that he had taken the knife to the scene within the meaning of paragraph 5A of Schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”
WLR Daily, 16th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Gang members who planned to flood south Wales with drugs worth £50m have been jailed for a total of almost 70 years.”
Full story
BBC News, 17th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who admitted raping a 17-year-old girl 32 years ago has been jailed.”
BBC News, 17th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet has been sentenced to eight months in jail.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anyone caught smuggling drugs into prison should face longer ‘deterrent’ sentences, the country’s most senior judge has said.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three men have been jailed for life after being convicted of murder in a revenge attack at a property in Kent.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge yesterday attacked short jail sentences designed to ease prison overcrowding warning that they create a ‘revolving door’ of reoffenders.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A children’s charity says child victims of sexual exploitation have been ‘failed by the system’ because convictions are so hard to achieve.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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