Subjects:

Criminal Law

The Sentencing Referencer provides practitioners with clear and practical guidance on over 100 different sentencing topics, laid out in an easy to navigate A-Z format.

This new edition incorporates provisions of new legislation including the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, the Road Safety Act 2006, the Serious Crime Prevention Act 2007, and the Mental Health Act 2007. It continues to provide full coverage of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, where it is still in force, and the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and deals with the problem of deciding which Act applies in a given case.

New topics covered for the first time in the 2008 edition are serious crime prevention orders and surcharge orders. The text has been revised where necessary to take account of recent judicial decisions.

In addition, Sentencing Referencer 2008:

• Enables practitioners to see which Act applies to the case they are working on
• Emphasises throughout the dates from which particular provisions apply
• Includes and updated table of maximum penalties for common indictable offences
• Supplies diagrams and flowcharts on subjects such as confiscation provisions and sentences for young or dangerous offenders
• is cross-referenced to Archbold and Current Sentencing Practice