Sentencing guidelines

The Court of Appeal sets out and endorses the legal principles and guidance contained in R v Tolera [1999] 1 Cr App R 29 and R v Underwood & Others [2005] 1 Cr App R 13 in respect of the interrelated considerations of pleas, basis of pleas and Newton hearings.

Renewed application for leave to appeal a sentence of three years imprisonment – arson – whether sentence manifestly excessive –whether the judge erred in rejecting the coercion claim – disparity – whether a non-custodial sentence should have been imposed – leave refused – sentence affirmed.

[2023] NICA 75 McCloskey LJ

10 November 2023

Sentencing guidelines

2896 results

Inquests touching upon the deaths of Lillian Majorie Cawdery and Michael Julien Hope Cawdery

Norma Mitchell v The Defence Council and Secretary of State for Defence

A Health and Social Care Trust v A Mother and A Father In the matter of a female child aged 6 years 10 months

Patrick and Jonathan Beatty -v- Heirs and Assigns of Sir Richard Wallace

Summary of Judgment - R v Crawford and Reilly

The King v Reilly and Crawford

Joan Maguire and Western Education and Library Board

In the matter of an inquest into the deaths of Daniel Doherty and William Fleming - Ruling on Anonymity and Screening Applications - PW7

Davison & Associates (NI) Limited and Admiral Care Services (NI) Limited and Richard & Dawn Sargent

A Mother and A Father and In the Matter of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Angesom's (Aman) Application and In the matter of a decision by the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission Intervening

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and AP and AU

Russell Oliver Kelly and Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

JR276's (A Patient) Application and In the matter of decisions of Muckamore Abbey Hospital Enquiry and the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Daniel McAteer and Aine McAteer v Joseph McElhinney, Patrick McDaid and Walter Hegarty T/A "McElhinney, McDaid & Hegarty" Solicitors

Fiona Jane Sinclair and Edmund Paul Sinclair

R v Laurence Creaney

A Health & Social Care Trust and A Patient and the Official Solicitor for the Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland

A Mother v A Health and Social Care Trust and A Father

A Father v A Health and Social Care Trust and A Mother In the matter of CT (an eight year old female child)