by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 21, 2023 | Cases
The Single Justice Procedure (“SJP”) is designed to enable magistrates’ courts to deal with minor offences more efficiently, while still ensuring rigorous, open and fair justice. Whether those aims are in fact met is the subject of some intense debate,...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 30, 2022 | Cases
It is now commonplace for us to be asked to deal with cases where a person is accused of a crime, most commonly of a sexual nature, which is said to have occurred many decades earlier. Not surprisingly, those accused will wonder how they can be expected to properly...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Sep 28, 2022 | Cases
In a recent case (Spivey [2022] EWCA Crim 997) a Judge was faced with offenders who had just turned 18 years of age. When sentencing, he made the following observation: “I do have in mind the guidelines in relation to sentencing children and young people.”...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Sep 18, 2022 | Cases
In Meanley [2022] EWCA Crim 1065 the Court of Appeal emphasised the importance of pre-sentence reports when sentencing young offenders. Meanley was 16 ½ at the date of commission of the offences, and 17 at the date of his conviction and sentence. On 29 October 2021,...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 1, 2021 | Cases
Fasail Hussain was sentenced earlier this year for drugs offences. The sentencing judge imposed a total term of 2293 days imprisonment. Hussain had been released from prison on licence at the time that he committed the offences. When an offence is committed on...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Aug 17, 2021 | Cases
An unusual case was dealt with at the Court of Appeal recently concerning offences of rape. The victim, referred to as X, was the partner of Smith, who was the leader of a large-scale drugs conspiracy. Smith enjoyed watching X have sex with his friends; he was much...
