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Gilligan v Ireland [2013] IESC 45; [2013] 2 IR 745; [2014] ILRM 153 [1] is an Irish Supreme Court case where the constitutionality of section 13 of the Criminal Law Act 1976 was challenged. This statutory provision related to the sentencing of those who commit a further crime while in prison.
The intention of the act was to correct minor errors and to streamline the law in respect of areas which are to be consolidated under the Sentencing Act 2020. The overall purpose of the law (together with the Sentencing Act 2020) is to remove historic and redundant layers of sentencing procedural legislation without introducing new sentencing law.
The Sentencing Act 2020 is a landmark Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act has 14 Parts and 29 Schedules. Parts 2 to 13 of the Act together make up a code called the “Sentencing Code”. [1] The Sentencing Code is the law which contains the main sentencing regime in England and Wales.
In December 2020, France 24 reported that Le Scouarnec had been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being charged in 2017 following a testimony from his neighbor's 6-year-old daughter, who was ...
Axel Rudakubana is the latest high-profile killer to avoid facing his victims’ families while being sentenced. The Southport killer was removed from his own sentencing twice for repeatedly ...
A man in his late 20s was arrested on 8 May 2021 and being details under section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1999. [28] On 17 May 2021 Paul Crosby appeared before Drogheda District Court sitting in Dundalk Court charged with the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods. In December 2022 he was convicted of facilitating Mulready-Woods' murder. [29]
The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 gives the Sentencing Council a statutory duty to prepare sentencing guidelines about the discharge of a court's duty under section 73 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17) (reduction in sentence for guilty plea), and sentencing guidelines about the application of any rule of law as to the totality of sentences. It ...
The Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882, was enacted during the Land War and introduced on the day of the funeral of Lord Frederick Cavendish, one of the Phoenix Park murder victims. [12] This empowered non-jury trials to impose death sentences, prompting Francis Alexander FitzGerald to resign in protest as baron of the exchequer . [ 13 ]