Current Sentencing Practice

Offering extensive guidance and advice on all aspects of the law and practice of sentencing, Current Sentencing Practice:

• Goes through different offences, setting out the law and what the maximum penalties are for each
• Explains the statutory framework and includes annotated statutes
• Deals with the courts' powers of sentencing and the procedures you need to follow
• Includes an extensive selection of sentencing decisions from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and the Divisional Court
• Details the likely sentence for the most common offences
• Covers wide-ranging changes under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Criminal Justice Act 2003, Sexual Offences Act 2003 and Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003
• Sets out the full text of all definitive guidelines issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council
• Includes the text of statutes which - although replaced by more recent legislation - continue to affect earlier offences
• Reproduces relevant legislation, cross-referencing to commentary and case examples within the work
• Includes a quick-reference contents guide, outlining the basics of each chapter, so that you can quickly turn to the section you want
• Features key content from the well respected bound book, the Sentencing Referencer as a fifth volume, which is updated in line with the rest of the work
• Includes quarterly issues of Current Sentencing Practice News

Includes updating releases until December 2011 inclusive. We will contact you each year to ascertain whether you wish to renew your subscription. 3 updating releases published per annum.

Reviews:

Comprehensive, clear and well-indexed. In so far as answers are available to sentencing problems they are to be found in its pages. In so far as answers are lacking... he provides helpful guidance. - Lord Lane, writing in the Foreword