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We hear appeals from proceedings in the Crown Court. We hear appeals against: convictions in the Crown Court sentences given by the Crown Court (even if the conviction was in a magistrates’ court) confiscation orders imposed by the Crown Court...
A new strategy has been launched to tackle the domestic and international threat of serious and organised crime.
The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.
Plans have been submitted to modernise the identification doctrine, a legal principle which can hold corporations criminally liable for an offence.
The King’s Speech will keep violent criminals locked up for longer and put victims front and centre of the criminal justice system.
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
A violent thug who murdered a man and raped two women as part of a ferocious four-day crime spree has had his sentence increased after it was referred to the Court of Appeal.
Staff dedicated to helping neurodivergent offenders are now in place in all public prisons in England and Wales.
This document sets out the government’s plan to deliver the change that Britain needs, with less crime, fewer victims and a safer country.
Society’s most depraved killers will face life behind bars with no chance of being released, under tough plans announced by the Prime Minister.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Perez on 20 November 2023.
What happens if you're charged with a crime. Find out about the hearing, when you can be released on bail and being put in custody (on remand).
Littlehey is a prison near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire for men convicted of a sex offence.
A best practice handbook for criminal justice professionals working with offenders with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
Offending behaviour programmes and interventions currently available for offenders in England and Wales.
Prescoed is a men’s open prison and young offender institution (YOI) in the village of Coed-y-Paen, South Wales. It is managed jointly with Usk Prison.
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