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Written by Criminal Law and Justice Weekly
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Vicki Helyar-Cardwell writes on the Sentencing Council’s guideline on drug offences
This week the Sentencing Council published its definitive guideline on drug offences. There are some welcome features in the new guideline, including measures to reduce the Draconian sentences currently handed down to so-called “drug mules”, people who are often involved in the offence as a result of naivety or undue pressure; they are, in the Council’s words, often “poor, disadvantaged and motivated primarily by need rather than by financial gain”.
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:00 |
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“Drug mules” face more lenient sentences under new guidelines on narcotics offences issued by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales.
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Read more... [Drugs - Lighter “Drug Mule” Sentences]
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:00 |
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A juror has been convicted of contempt of court after she researched a defendant’s history on the Internet and told other members of the jury that the defendent had previously been acquitted of rape.
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Read more... [Trials - Contempt in Court]
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Three men have been convicted of stirring up hatred on grounds of sexual orientation in the first prosecution of its kind. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed, and Razwan Javed were prosecuted under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which came into force in 2010, after they distributed leaflets in Derby calling for homosexuals to be given the death sentence.
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Read more... [Hate Crime - Gay Hate Crime Landmark]
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:00 |
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The Metropolitan Police Service has won its appeal against a High Court ruling that the use of kettling tactics against some G20 protestors in 2009 was unlawful. The High Court ruled that there had been no evidence of an imminent breach of the peace such as was necessary to justify kettling the “climate camp” in London’s Bishopsgate for over four hours.
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Read more... [Police - Met Wins Kettling Appeal]
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