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1. This application by H.M. Solicitor-General to refer to this court a sentence which he considers to be unduly lenient was heard by us on 2 May 2018. At the conclusion of the hearing, we announced our decision that we would grant leave, and that we found the sentence passed to have been unduly lenient, but that we declined to interfere with the se...

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1. This matter concerns the specialty rule. The Applicant has been extradited to this country from Sweden. He faces here, in the event, a single Count of Conspiracy to Corrupt, contrary to s.1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Insofar as relevant, Swedish Law has a 10-year limitation period on criminal liability. As is common ground, the Applicant

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1. This is an application by Her Majesty's Solicitor General, under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, for leave to refer to this court a sentence which he considers to be unduly lenient. 2. On 23rd February 2018 in the Crown Court at Worcester the offender was sentenced to a total of four years' imprisonment. For possession of coc...

J U D G M E N T (Approved)1. MR JUSTICE JAY: On 1 December 2017 the appellant was sentenced by His Honour Judge Batty QC, sitting at York Crown Court, following his guilty pleas, to a total term of imprisonment of 3 years on a two count indictment. Count 1, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, the sentence was 3 years' imprisonment; on count 2...

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1. In Blackstone's Criminal Practice (18th ed.) at paragraph B4.48 the following is stated: ``Where an alleged theft involves a thing in action such as the credit balance in V's bank account, or the right to payment on a cheque, it can sometimes be particularly difficult to identify the crucial act of appropriation, even where it seems clear that D...

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1. On 30th June 2016 in the Crown Court at Luton the respondent, John Parker, pleaded guilty to a count of dealing with goods chargeable with a duty which had not been paid with intent to defraud Her Majesty of the duty payable thereon by virtue of the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 contrary section 170(1)(b) and (3) of the Customs and Excise Manag...

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1. On 27th June 2017, following a trial in the Crown Court at Northampton, the appellant was convicted of one count of conspiracy between 1st January and 3rd August 2016 to supply a controlled drug of Class A (cocaine). His five co-accused had all pleaded guilty at various times to being involved in the same conspiracy, as well as to other offenc...

1. This appeal raises the question whether, if the prosecution are discontented with the terms of a default order in confiscation proceedings, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) has jurisdiction to determine a challenge to that order. 2. On 26 September 2013, at Nottingham Crown Court (before HHJ Hamilton), the respondent pleaded guilty to off...

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1. The appellant company operates a slaughterhouse and cutting plant for sheep. It appeals against its conviction of an offence under regulation 17(1) of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/801) of failing to give an inspector assistance required to take samples. Background 2. The European Parliament a...

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1. On 14 March 2008 in the Crown Court sitting at Isleworth the appellant pleaded guilty to a count of concealing criminal property, two counts of false accounting, a count of converting criminal property and a further charge of possession of a class A drug (heroin). 2. On 22 August 2008, he was sentenced to an overall term of 6 years' imprisonmen...

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J U D G M E N T (Approved)1. MR JUSTICE EDIS: Vincent Waddington is now 43 years old. On 28 November 2016 in the Crown Court at Liverpool he was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for conspiracy to supply class B drugs, namely amphetamine, of which he had earlier been convicted after a trial. One other man was convicted of the same offence a...

2. On 24 August 2017, at Isleworth Crown Court, the appellant was convicted on count 1 of wounding with intent, contrary to section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and on count 3, of possession of an offensive weapon, contrary to section 1(1) of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953. On count 1 he was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment,

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2. On 25 November 2015 in the Crown Court sitting at Sheffield the Applicant was convicted of the murder of Jordan Thomas and of the attempted murder of Neshaun Ferguson. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years on count one and to 10 years imprisonment concurrent on count two. 3. Mr Joel Bennathan QC who did not appear...

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3. In order to address this appeal it is necessary to explain how this total sentence came to be calculated. There were eleven counts on the indictment relating to sexual abuse of children at a residential home in the 1970s. Counts 1, 3, 4 , 6, 7 and 9 charged indecent assault on a male, contrary to section 15(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956;