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Criminal-law [2023] JRC 238

M v AG

M v AG [2023] JRC 238 (30 November 2023)

The Royal Court allowed an appeal against a 7-month youth detention sentence, holding that the Magistrate proceeded on a mistaken factual basis and should have treated the appellant as willing to do community service.

  • Sentencing
  • Perverting-the-course-of-justice
  • Community-service-orders
  • Youth-detention
  • Appeals-procedure
  • Criminal-sentencing
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Criminal-law [2019] JRC 006A

Gill v AG

Gill v AG [2019] JRC 006A (23 January 2019)

Leave to appeal was refused against a 2-year youth detention sentence for prolonged drug supply and possession offences. The court held it was not manifestly excessive.

  • Sentencing
  • Youth-offenders
  • Drug-offences
  • Appeals-against-sentence
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Criminal-law [2005] JCA 089

Gregory & Raffray -v- A.G.

Gregory & Raffray -v- A.G. [2005] JCA 089 (06 July 2005)

The Court of Appeal dismissed Elaine Gregory’s appeal and Duncan Raffray’s appeal against sentence arising from a substantial heroin importation into Jersey.

  • Drug-offences
  • Sentencing
  • Mitigation
  • Importation-of-controlled-substances
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Controlled-substances
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Criminal-law [2004] JRC 221

Marett v AG

Marett v AG [2004] JRC 221 (21 December 2004)

Application for leave to appeal against a 30-month aggregate sentence was granted, but the appeal was dismissed. The court upheld consecutive sentencing and found no manifest excess.

  • Sentencing
  • Totality-principle
  • Consecutive-and-concurrent-sentences
  • Appeals-against-sentence
  • Consecutive-sentences
  • Criminal-appeals
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Criminal-law [2003] JCA 203

Mortimore v AG

Mortimore v AG [2003] JCA 203 (12 November 2003)

The Court of Appeal reduced a drug-importation sentence from 5 years to 4 years after finding the sentencing court had not fully accepted that the heroin was for personal use.

  • Sentencing
  • Importation-of-controlled-drugs
  • Mitigation
  • Personal-use-vs-commercial-intent
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Drug-importation
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Criminal-law [2003] JCA 125A

Green v AG

Green v AG [2003] JCA 125A (18 July 2003)

The Court of Appeal of Jersey held that Article 35(4) of the Court of Appeal (Jersey) Law 1961 remained operative, but issued practice directions to make loss-of-time decisions fairer.

  • Appeals-against-sentence
  • Computation-of-sentence
  • Prisoner-treatment
  • Loss-of-time
  • Discretion-under-article-35(4)
  • European-convention-on-human-rights-compliance
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Criminal-law [2002] JRC 236

Gillingham v AG

Gillingham v AG [2002] JRC 236 (11 December 2002)

The court dismissed an appeal against a six-month prison sentence for assault and malicious damage, holding that the sentence was neither manifestly excessive nor wrong in principle.

  • Assault
  • Malicious-damage
  • Sentencing
  • Probation-breach
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Appeals-against-sentence
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Criminal-law [2001] JRC 44

Oliver v AG

Oliver v AG [2001] JRC 44 (21 February 2001)

The appeal against a 3-week custodial sentence for driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, and larceny was dismissed.

  • Driving-whilst-disqualified
  • Driving-without-insurance
  • Larceny
  • Sentencing
  • Community-service-vs-custodial-sentence
  • Criminal-sentencing
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Criminal-law

Uddin v Att. Gen.

Uddin v Att. Gen. [1994] JLR_Note 8a (22 August 1994)

Criminal appeal concerning a sentence appeal against a probation order in Jersey.

  • Appeals-against-sentence
  • Probation-orders
  • Criminal-law
  • Sentencing
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