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Criminal law [2024] EWCA Crim 1252

McGuinness, R. v

McGuinness, R. v [2024] EWCA Crim 1252 (06 September 2024)

The Court of Appeal reduced an assault-on-an-emergency-worker sentence from 182 days to 42 days and quashed unlawful Crown Court sendings of summary offences.

  • Assault on emergency worker
  • Possession of bladed article
  • Low-value shoplifting
  • Community protection notice
  • Jurisdictional error
  • Sentencing guidelines
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Criminal law [2017] EWCA Crim 1233

Maxwell v R

Maxwell v R [2017] EWCA Crim 1233 (22 August 2017)

Appeal against conviction and sentence partly allowed where low-value shoplifting counts were wrongly on the indictment and several sentencing errors required correction.

  • Low-value shoplifting
  • Indictment procedure
  • Sentencing
  • Totality
  • Driving disqualification
  • Low-value-shoplifting
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Criminal law

Maxwell v R

The Court of Appeal quashed convictions for three low-value shoplifting counts, reduced the overall sentence from 7 years 4 months to 6 years, and amended driving disqualification orders.

  • Appeal against conviction
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Low-value shoplifting
  • Indictment procedure
  • Sentencing errors
  • Totality principle
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