Sentencing guidelines

24 June 1993

Cosgrove v Cathcart

04 March 1993

Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1993)

Sentencing - Wounding with intent - Sentence of 6 months' imprisonment and payment of £500 compensation - Whether unduly lenient - whether court should exercise discretion not to increase sentence where unduly lenient when term of imprisonment already served.

05 February 1993

R v Rowden & Toal

Burglary - offences committed while appellant on bail for another offence - totality of consecutive sentences - disparity between co-accused in respect of the number and quality of their previous convictions - discount for plea of guilty when appellant caught red handed.

28 January 1993

R v David John O'Neill & Brian Jack Archibald

22 December 1992

R v Donal Gregory Carroll and Ailish Carroll

11 November 1992

Attorney General's Reference No.2 of 1992

09 October 1992

Attorney General's Reference (No's 3 and 4 of 1992)

09 September 1992

R v Stephen McMullan

04 September 1992

Sawyers v Nesbitt

12 June 1992

Gerard Majella O'Neill

30 March 1992

R v Robert Alexander Skelton & Dale Mooney

Attempted robbery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm - imprisonment for 14 and 12 years - elderly victim - savage and prolonged attack - deterrent sentences - appropriate discount for late plea of guilty - accused alcoholic - whether relevant that accused under influence of drink - whether excessive or wrong in principle.

04 March 1992

Watson v King

26 February 1992

Samuel Johnston & Anr v Andras House

26 November 1991

Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1991)

Defendants assaulted police officers in an effort to escape after committing burglary - distinction between attempt to resist arrest and intent to inflict grievous bodily harm - concurrent and consecutive sentence - whether sentence for initial offence should be fixed independently of assault - whether sentence unduly lenient.

21 November 1991

R v Raymond Gerard Quigg

Making property available for use in connection with terrorism - whether sentence of 10 years manifestly excessive - weight given to the physical condition and personal history of the appellant.

20 November 1991

Riverside Snooker Club v Lamont (Holdings)

08 November 1991

R v Stuart James Gouldie

Suspended sentence - activation - factors to be taken into account by Court - whether sentence should be activated in its entirety.

01 November 1991

Sharma v McHugh

25 October 1991

R v Desmond Martin McCafferty

11 October 1991

Ready Mixed Concrete v McCaffrey