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SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN

April 9, 2019

Where the admission of hearsay evidence of a person who had died was sought under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s.116(2)(a), in the proviso in s.116(5), that if the circumstances (namely that person’s death) were caused “(a) by the person in support of whose case it is sought to give the statement…” [then the evidence would be inadmissible], “person” meant the defendant or somebody acting on his behalf, not the deceased person.

ADMISSIBILITY BEST EVIDENCE CRIMINAL EVIDENCE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DISCHARGE OF JURY GOOD CHARACTER HEARSAY EVIDENCE SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN SUICIDE

October 25, 2018

Following the appellant’s retrial for sexual offences, the judge had been correct to impose a special sentence of custody for offenders of particular concern. However, the term imposed, namely a custodial term of 16 years and an extended licence period of one year, contravened the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 Sch.2 para.2(1) because it was “of greater severity” than the 17-year sentence imposed at the original trial. That was because of the release regime applicable to offenders who were subject to a special sentence of custody for offenders of particular concern.

INDECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN OFFENDERS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 RELEASE FROM CUSTODY RETRIALS SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN UNLAWFUL SENTENCES

October 24, 2018

Convictions for sexual offences were safe despite the fact that material about the complainant had not been disclosed to the defence, because the picture of the complainant put before the jury was nevertheless a sufficiently accurate one.

ADMISSIBILITY BAD CHARACTER CAUSING CHILDREN TO WATCH SEXUAL ACTS CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION CRIMINAL EVIDENCE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE PROSECUTION DISCLOSURE PROSECUTION WITNESSES SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN

June 21, 2018

While a judge’s summing-up could have been more clearly expressed, it was not confusing, did not advocate the prosecution case and it did not render the trial unfair. Trial judges were reminded of the guidance and draft directions contained in the Crown Court Compendium. Those directions provided judges with an invaluable resource which, when adapted to the facts of a case, provided an appropriate framework for a legally correct direction.

BAD CHARACTER CRIMINAL PROCEDURE JURY DIRECTIONS LUCAS DIRECTIONS SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILD UNDER 13 SUMMING UP

March 28, 2018

A judge had not erred when sentencing an offender to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 10 years, as a sentence of “last resort” for extreme child sex offences committed over a number of years against his own children. The sentence was also not unduly lenient, despite the minimum term not being increased when the offender was sentenced for further offences which involved the same children being offered to other men for sexual purposes.

CHILD SEX OFFENCES CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CONSPIRACY EXTENDED SENTENCES LIFE IMPRISONMENT RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILD FAMILY MEMBER SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN UNDUE LENIENCY VICTIM IMPACT

March 1, 2018

A judge had not erred in refusing a late application to admit expert evidence as to an appellant’s intellectual ability to assess age at his trial for child sex offences. The assessment of age was not a particularly intellectual process and the appellant’s own evidence had been that he had no difficulty with judging age.

AGE CREDIBILITY CRIMINAL EVIDENCE EXPERT EVIDENCE LEARNING DISABILITIES MEETING CHILDREN FOLLOWING SEXUAL GROOMING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN

October 15, 2015

An offender’s conviction for offences of sexual acitivity with a child was not rendered unsafe by the judge’s failure, after allowing a video recording of the complainant’s evidence-in-chief to be replayed to the jury when they had retired to consider their verdict, to expressly warn the jury against giving the replay video evidence a disproportionate weight.

CRIMINAL EVIDENCE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE EVIDENCE IN CHIEF JURIES SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN VICTIM SURCHARGE VIDEO RECORDINGS

March 25, 2015

A determinate sentence of two years was appropriate in the case of a 27-year-old man who had pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.

NORTHERN IRELAND SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN SEXUAL OFFENCES PREVENTION ORDERS

March 5, 2015

An extended sentence of 39 years, with a custodial term of 33 years, imposed in respect of a very large number of serious sexual offences against young girls was manifestly excessive; the appropriate custodial term was 30 years. The judge had also erred in adding up the consecutive sentences to reach the overall custodial term before imposing an extension period on the total: it was the overall extended determinate sentences that had to be consecutive, not just the custodial terms.

CHILD SEX OFFENCES CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2003 s.226A EXTENDED SENTENCES INDECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN LARGE NUMBER OF SERIOUS SEXUAL OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN INCLUDING REPEATED RAPE OF MORE THAN ONE VICTIM MEETING CHILDREN FOLLOWING SEXUAL GROOMING POSSESSION OF EXTREME PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 SENTENCING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN SEXUAL ASSAULT

February 17, 2015

It was unjust for a Crown Court judge to order that a foreign travel order begin afresh from the date on which he had dismissed an appeal by an offender against that order. The order was to run from the date on which it had originally been made.

APPEAL REFUSED AGAINST ORDER IMPOSED ON RETURN TO UK COMMENCEMENT DATE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FOREIGN TRAVEL ORDERS PENOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY RELEVANT COMMENCEMENT DATE s.114 s.115(2) s.117 s.117(3) s.117(5) s.118 s.118(5) s.119 s.119(2) s.122 s.97 SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN SEXUAL HARM PREVENTION ORDERS SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 2003 Pt 2 UK CITIZEN CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX OFFENCES ABROAD

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