C v WINCHESTER CROWN COURT (2014)
A recorder had erred in varying an order so that the identity of a young offender could be made public; he had given insufficient consideration to the public interest in the effective rehabilitation of the offender.
R v KEITH JOHN CARTON (2012)
The court quashed a sentence of 14 months’ imprisonment imposed after an offender’s guilty plea to outraging public decency by taking video footage underneath women’s skirts without their knowledge. A community order with a requirement to attend a sex offender programme was more likely to lead to the offender’s rehabilitation than a custodial sentence and […]
R v LSB (2010)
The Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.86 applied to the totality of a sentence even where part of the overall sentence imposed was in respect of sexual offences committed after September 30, 1998.