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The Sentence Review Commissioners in Northern Ireland has been appointed to oversee and regulate the early release of certain prisoners convicted during the period of civil unrest.
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Thousands of rehabilitated ex-prisoners serving long-since abolished indefinite sentences will become eligible to have their licence period terminated earlier as part of new reforms.
Information about the pre-sentence report pilot in 15 magistrates’ courts.
The Sentencing Bill consolidates existing sentencing legislation in England and Wales into a new Sentencing Code.
OISC has created a table containing charges related to providing unlawful immigration advice or fraud and the arrest warrants of those who failed to appear at court.
Information relating to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act which received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
This guide provides information about being arrested in Germany and what conditions are like in prison there.
The Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill paves the way for the introduction of the Sentencing Code – a consolidation of sentencing procedure.
Cowardly domestic abusers will continue to face time behind bars under legislation laid in Parliament today which will also see the most horrific murderers face life behind bars and rapists locked up for longer.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals applied to checks processed until 27 October 2023, and example scenarios.
Guidance on the creation and coming into force of the Sentencing Code.
Tougher sentences for cowardly killers delivered a year on from Wade Review.
New Sentencing Code to help prevent unlawful sentences being handed out.
The number of sentences examined by the Attorney General in 2015 as unduly lenient, including the outcome and details of the cases
Guidance for members of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and government drafters on the Sentencing Code.
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