Attorney General's Reference (No.36 of 2015) (Nicholles (John Bernard))

Ashworth talks about the case with the attorney general's reference no. 36 of 2015. The grounds for the Reference were that the sentence was unduly lenient in modern times in circumstances where a knife was used and a death unlawfully caused. Held, granting the Reference, that the trial judge h...

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Published in:Criminal law review 2015-11 (11), p.918
Main Author: Ashworth, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Criminal law
Criminal sentences
Litigation
Manslaughter
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Summary:Ashworth talks about the case with the attorney general's reference no. 36 of 2015. The grounds for the Reference were that the sentence was unduly lenient in modern times in circumstances where a knife was used and a death unlawfully caused. Held, granting the Reference, that the trial judge had given insufficient weight to the change in approach to sentencing in unlawful act manslaughter cases signalled by Attorney General's Reference EWCA Crim 2693;46.
ISSN:0011-135X