The Practical Lawyer

New sentencing guidelines for terrorist offences, where offenders are sentenced from 27 April 2018, are now in force.

In this article, the author (who represented the appellant) considers the making of hospital orders in criminal proceedings, and the use of hybrid orders, following a Court of Appeal ruling.

A was convicted, along with his co-defendants, of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly rigging LIBOR.

The Sentencing Council has published a new definitive guideline on bladed articles and offensive weapons offences; as well as a separate and similar sentencing guideline for the possession of weapons and threats to use them.

The court should try to avoid interpreting a statute in a way which would produce an absurd result.