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A person guilty of burglary is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum, or to both. [21] Minimum. Section 4 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 specified a minimum 3-year prison sentence for third-time domestic burglary unless exceptional circumstances applied ...
The maximum prison sentence in the magistrates' court is six months (which may be imposed consecutively up to 12 months for two triable either-way offences). There is also a range of ancillary sentences available to the courts, such as compensation orders, costs, restraining orders and disqualification orders, depending on the type of offence.
Long title: An Act to make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise ...
From 10 December 2007, the maximum penalty that may be imposed in summary cases is 12 months' imprisonment or a £10,000 fine, in solemn cases 5 years' imprisonment or an unlimited fine. [12] The highest criminal court in Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.
The legal definition of "causation" is that "but for" the defendant's conduct, the victim would not have been harmed. [15] If more than one cause for harm exists (e.g. harm comes at the hands of more than one culprit) the rule states that to be responsible, one's actions must have "more than a slight or trifling link" to the harm. [ 16 ]
For burglary of dwellings in Teesside, 20 per cent of offenders were sentenced to an immediate custodial sentence, compared with 41 per cent in Birmingham; 38 per cent of burglars in Cardiff Magistrates' Court received community sentences compared with 66 per cent in Leicester.
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Mandatory sentencing laws vary across nations; they are more prevalent in common law jurisdictions because civil law jurisdictions usually prescribe minimum and maximum sentences for every type of crime in explicit laws. They can be applied to crimes ranging from minor offences to extremely violent crimes including murder.