Here, Great James Street’s Vishal Misra offers an essential update on criminal law sentencing for all practitioners, with an additional focus on new suspended sentences rules, providing easy-to-follow advice and a breakdown of factors to be taken into account.
• When can a sentence be suspended • New Sentencing Council guidance • When a sentence should not be suspended • The youth factor • Prison population
Relevant law
R v Chowdhury [2016] EWCA Crim 1341 R v Hussain [2019] EWCA Crim 1542 R v Ali [2023] EWCA Crim 232 R v Middleton [2019] EWCA Crim 633 R v Asif [2022] EWCA Crim 1372 Attorney-General’s Reference (Clarke) [2018] EWCA Crim 185