AG -v- Oliver [2015] JRC 024 (30 January 2015)
- Citation
- [2015] JRC 024
- Status
- Judgment
- Jurisdiction
- Jersey
- Posture
- Criminal / Post Conviction Review
More details
- Posture
- Criminal / Post Conviction Review
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Holding and result
The defendant is granted a final 6-week period to complete the community service order, with clear warning that failure will result in reconsideration of sentence, potentially a custodial one.
Court disposition
adjourned with warning
Orders
- Defendant granted 6 weeks to complete community service order.
- Failure to comply will result in reconsideration of sentence, likely custodial.
02
Material facts
Parties
Unnamed Defendant
DefendantAttorney General
ProsecutorAmounts and remedies
- Community Service Order Completion Period: 6
03
Procedural history
Posture
Criminal / Post Conviction Review
04
Questions and positions
Legal issues
- 01
failure to comply with community service order
- 02
potential for custodial sentence upon non-compliance
Party arguments
- Applicant
- Defendant claims fitness issues as reason for irregular compliance with community service order.
- Respondent
- Court expresses suspicion regarding the validity of defendant's excuses and emphasizes the seriousness of compliance.
05
Court’s reasoning
Legal principles
- 01
General criminal law principles
Court orders must be complied with; failure may result in harsher penalties.
06
Ratio, limits and disposition
Ratio decidendi
The defendant is granted a final 6-week period to complete the community service order, with clear warning that failure will result in reconsideration of sentence, potentially a custodial one.
Obiter and limits
- Court expresses suspicion about the defendant's excuses for non-compliance.
- Court warns that future sentencing will not be calculated proportionally but as deemed appropriate.
Court disposition
adjourned with warning
- Defendant granted 6 weeks to complete community service order.
- Failure to comply will result in reconsideration of sentence, likely custodial.
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Court record
Judgment
JUDGMENT THE BAILIFF: 1. You committed a serious criminal offence and you were, as the Court said on the last occasion, very fortunate to receive a Community Service Order for that offence. You have clearly performed some of your community service but it also, equally clearly, has been a struggle for the community service manager because you do not tell him on a regular basis whether you are going to be fit to do it or not. We can appreciate that there are sometimes going to be occasions when you do not realise that you are not fit, but frankly, they happen so often that one has to be a little bit suspicious about the excuse that has been put up. We are giving you 6 weeks to finish the rest of that Community Service Order and you should realise that if you do not perform it within that period, we are quite sure that the Attorney General will bring it back to Court and we will then be looking at a custodial sentence, which is not going to be calculated on the basis of some percentage of what should be done. It will be whatever the Court thinks is an appropriate sentence to impose and it may well be far greater than you might expect so you should know that. The Court's order is there to be performed and there is a suspicion, I put it no higher than that at the moment, there is a suspicion that you are not paying due attention to it.
2. Make sure you appreciate that lesson is there and you have a further 6 weeks to complete the Community Service Order. Authorities AG-v-Power and Oliver [2014] JRC 009. Page Last Updated: 27 Sep 2016 BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Donate to BAILII
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