R v Andre Shoukri
Firearms (NI) Order 1981 - possession of firearms and ammunition in suspicious circumstances - burden of proving lawful object - sentence.
[2003] NICA 53 Kerr J11 results
R v Robert Black
Appeal against sentence of six years imprisonment - attempted burglary - habitual criminality - credit for guilty plea - whether sentence manifestly excessive - appeal allowed - sentence reduced.
[2003] NICA 51 Carswell LCJ
R v Terence Joseph Ritchie
AOABH - s.47 of Offences Against the Person Act 1861 - prosecution proposed summary trial - effect on sentence.
[2003] NICA 45 Higgins J
Reference by Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Northern Ireland (no 9 of 2003)
Unduly lenient sentence - rape and indecent assault - totality
[2003] NICA 41 Carswell LCJ
R v John Anthony Deery Attorney General's Reference (No 16 of 2003)
Indecent assault - several child victims over many years - concurrent/consecutive sentences
[2003] NICA 44 Weir J
Richard Herbert Crowe - Attorney General's Reference (No 5 of 2003)
Reference by AG of sentence as unduly lenient – 3 years’ probation concurrent with earlier equivalent sentence for similar offending – possession/possession with intent to supply Class A & B drugs – unusual circumstances for ‘supply’ – offender responding well to addiction treatment on probation - sentence lenient but not unduly so.
[2003] NICA 38 Carswell LCJ
R v Ryan Thomas John Flynn AG Ref (No.3 of 2003)
Robbery - Amateurish robbery of small business - need for deterrence - substitution of immediate custodial sentence for a non-custodial one.
[2003] NICA 32 Carswell LCJ
AG for NI (no 2 of 2003) (Gavin James Robinson) AG for NI (no 6 of 2003) (Graeme Humphreys) AG for NI (no 7 of 2003) (Colm Peter McGuone) AG for NI (no 8 of 2003) (Dean Noel James)
Sentence imposed by the court was unduly lenient - causing death by dangerous driving - causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving - causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink.
[2003] NICA 28 Carswell LCJ
R v Peter Murray & Christopher Armstrong
Aggravated Burglary - arising from inter-personal dispute - lesser penalty appropriate where break in not for gain and high unlikelihood of re-offending.
[2003] NICA 24 Carswell LCJ
R v Patrick Joseph Murdock
Disparity
[2003] NICA 21 Carswell LCJ
R v Brian Anthony Edwards
Offender savagely attacking former girlfriend - inflicting 25 to 30 wounds to face, neck, limbs and body - 20 years on a contest - assistance derived from Practice Statement on sentencing for murder issued by Woolf LCJ on 27 August 2002.
]2003] NICA 11 Nicholson LJ