by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Aug 19, 2023 | Law
Two new guidelines for sentencing people convicted of interfering with the administration of justice in England and Wales were published this week by the Sentencing Council following consultation. For the first time, judges and magistrates will have guidelines to...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jul 22, 2023 | News
Up to 12,000 prisoners in England and Wales at risk of being released homeless will be offered temporary housing for up to 12 weeks as part of the Community Accommodation Service scheme. In 2019/20 (the last pre-COVID performance publication), there were approximately...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jul 22, 2023 | Crime
Homicide is the killing of one person by another. It accounts for a very small proportion of deaths each year in England and Wales; for the most recent five years of mortality data, from 2017 to 2021, homicides accounted for one in every 800 deaths. Historical data on...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jun 24, 2023 | Information
As part of government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, published in March 2023, a 6 month pilot will rapidly deploy those sentenced to perform Community Service (unpaid work) to swiftly clean up egregious instances of fly-tipping, vandalism and littering as part...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jun 24, 2023 | Drugs
In a recent case, an offender offered the following by way of mitigation: ‘[He] said that he owed a gang £25,000 for his passage to the United Kingdom. He now said that he had initially been working on a construction site and had moved to work where the cannabis...
