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...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jun 24, 2023 | Information
A pre-sentence report is advice given to the court following the facts of the case, expert risks and needs assessments, including an independent sentencing proposal and additional relevant information. They must be as objective as possible and exist to assist the...
