Sentencing guidelines - Sexual Offences

73 results

06 March 2009

R v CK a minor

Appeal against sentences - minors - indecent assaults, acts of gross indecency and rape - custodial sentence - other methods of disposal especially a custody probation order - ECHR Art. 8 - sexual offences prevention order expiry date - periods of detention and one year's supervision - third and fourth conditions of the sexual offences prevention order to be deleted - second condition amended in the terms set out in this judgment - sexual offences prevention order to remain in force for the period of five years from today's date - to that extent appeal allowed.

[2009] NICA 17 Kerr LCJ

05 August 2008

R v Samuel Shannon

Sexual offences prevention order (‘SOPO’) - section 104 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 – guidance on the conditions for imposing SOPOs.

[2008] NICA 38 Campbell LJ

27 June 2008

R v Trevor Hamilton

Conditions justifying imposition of whole life tariff

[2008] NICA 27 Kerr LCJ

19 January 2007

R v JR

Proper approach to sentencing in cases of historic familial abuse

[2007] NICA 5 Kerr LCJ

13 October 2006

R v Patrick McColgan

Indecent assault - AOABH - false imprisonment - Criminal Justice (NI) Order 1996 Art.20 (2)(b) - protective sentences for violent or sexual offence.

[2006] NICA 41 Kerr LCJ

15 September 2006

R v Michael John Gilbert (AG Ref No 3 of 2006)

Rape, assault and burglary

[2006] NICA 36 Kerr LCJ

23 June 2006

R v Andrew Robinson

Tariff - higher starting point - domestic violence.

[2006] NICA 29 Kerr LCJ

10 March 2006

R v D O

Rape, Buggery, Totality

[2006] NICA 7 Kerr LCJ

16 September 2005

R v Joseph Henry Bateson

Historic sexual offences - rape and indecent assault - historic cases - effect of delay on sentence - youth of offender.

[2005] NICA 37 Nicholson LJ

06 July 2005

R v Martin Kerr Attorney General's Reference (No 4 of 2005)

Indecent assaults - guidance on sexual offences against young children - abuse of trust - significant adverse effect on victim - offences committed over period in respect of which offender had been previously dealt with in relation to similar offences against others.

[2005] NICA 33 Kerr LCJ

24 September 2004

Conor Gerard Doyle, Attorney General's Reference No 6 of 2004 (AG Ref 16 of 2004)

Correct approach to guidance contained in Practice Statement.

[2004] NICA 33 Kerr LCJ

30 April 2004

R v Daniel John O'Connell Attorney General's Reference No 2 of 2004 (AG Ref 1 of 2004)

Rape, attempted rape and indecent assault

[2004] NICA 15 Kerr LCJ

09 January 2004

R v Trevor McCandless, Stephen Anthony Johnston, Paul James Johnston, Samuel Anderson, Kenneth John Scott

Adoption of Practice Statement of Lord Woolf CJ.

[2004] NICA 1 Carswell LCJ

31 October 2003

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

31 October 2003

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

10 October 1997

R v Eamon Hugh Molloy

Rape, attempted buggery and indecent assault of pregnant woman in her own home - attack caused "major psychological trauma" to victim - whether 15 years excessive.

1997 NIJB 241 Carswell LCJ

02 May 1997

R v Colm McQuilan & Joseph McCormick

Rape of German tourist - aggravating and mitigating factors - guideline cases.

R v McQuillan & McCormick 020597 MacDermott LJ

18 April 1997

R v Darren Boyd

Buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency with young boy - supply of prosecution evidence to defence - objective evaluation of new material - sentencing in child sexual abuse cases.

Darren Boyd 18041997 MacDermott LJ

18 March 1997

R v J.M

Appeal against sentence - rape and sexual abuse of daughter - whether 16 years sentences excessive - deterrent sentences - weight to be given to mental condition of appellant.

R v J.M MacDermott LJ

21 February 1997

R v D Attorney General's Reference (No.5 of 1996)

Sentencing - rape and indecent assault on Daughter by father - "incestuous rape" and sexual abuse - whether sentence unduly lenient - age of offender and aggravating factors.

R v D AG Ref No.5 of 1996 MacDermott LJ