Sentencing Bench Book

Updated july 2020 the main aim of this compendium is to provide guidance on directing the jury in crown court trials and when sentencing though it contains some practical suggestions in other areas for example jury management which it is hoped will be helpful.

Sentencing bench book. Procedural fairness has been amended to include references to recent case law. Judicial college of victoria family violence bench book 2014. The equality before the law bench book is produced as a guideline only and is not intended to lay down or develop any principles of law. By downloading the pdf version and opening the sentencing bench book you are agreeing that it is your responsibility to ensure that you download the latest release of the bench book from the judicial commission s website so you have the latest pdf version it is suggested that you check at least monthly.

The sentencing bench book like any looseleaf service is a work in progress. These were formatting changes only. Sentencing bench book update 45 published. 4 1 1 discusses the contravention of a family violence intervention order including sentencing sentencing.

Sentencing bench book 20 december 2019. Adult court bench book amendments april 2020 relate to the increased victim surcharge amounts national roll out of attendance and location monitoring as a sentencing requirement and or bail condition and amendments to council tax enforcement. Preliminaries agreement for use currency foreword introduction disclaimer special bulletins 1 000 procedural and evidential matters 1 000 procedural fairness 1 200 obligations of the parties 1 400 fact finding at sentence 2 000 crimes sentencing procedure act 1999 2 000 application of the act 2 200 purposes of sentencing 3 000 penalties that may be imposed. 4 2 discusses criminal offences in the context of family violence including gravity of offences sentencing purposes and the relevance of the attitude of the victim.

I trust that judicial officers practitioners and anyone interested in sentencing will find the sentencing bench book to be both informative and useful. Hugh donnelly director research and sentencing july 2016 sbb. Sentencing bench book children criminal proceedings act 1987 15 000 jurisdiction of the children s court jurisdiction of children s court not to be exercised by certain other courts 15 010 principles relating to the exercise of criminal jurisdiction 15 015 relevance of youth at sentence 15 020 hearings bail applications recording. The compendium is intended to replace all of the guidance previously.

Sentencing bench book subjective matters taken into account cf s 21a 1 10 400 prior record section 21a 2 d crimes sentencing procedure act 1999 and the common law requirement to state the precise manner prior record is taken into account under s 21a 2 d undetected or ongoing criminal offending gap in history of criminal offending.