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Criminal law [2025] JRC 022

Morris-v-AG (Royal Court : Appeal

Morris-v-AG (Royal Court : Appeal (Criminal)) [2025] JRC 022 (22 January 2025)

The appeal against a 6-month sentence for importing cocaine was allowed after the actual weight proved lower and community service became available in Leicester.

  • Sentencing
  • Importation of controlled drugs
  • Mitigation
  • Community service orders
  • Drug-importation
  • Community-service-orders
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 274

AG v Smith

AG v Smith [2024] JRC 274 (06 December 2024)

Sentencing for repeated Jersey benefit fraud. Despite the custody threshold being met, the court imposed community service and probation after a guilty plea and mitigation.

  • Benefit fraud
  • Sentencing
  • Community service orders
  • Benefit-fraud
  • Community-service-order
  • Probation
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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

Jack Lennie v The Attorney General

The Royal Court upheld six weeks’ imprisonment for sexual touching without consent, but set aside a two-year restraining order for lack of statutory basis.

  • Sexual touching without consent
  • Immediate custodial sentence
  • Community service orders
  • Restraining order
  • Manifestly excessive sentence
  • Sexual-touching-without-consent
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Criminal law [2022] JRC 204

Lennie v AG

Lennie v AG [2022] JRC 204 (25 August 2022)

The Royal Court upheld a six-week prison sentence for sexual touching without consent, but set aside a restraining order that lacked legal basis.

  • Sexual offences
  • Sentencing
  • Community service orders
  • Restraining orders
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Sexual-offences
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Criminal law [2021] JRC 318

AG v Gomes

AG v Gomes [2021] JRC 318 (17 December 2021)

A young defendant who pleaded guilty to seven drug offences received a non-custodial sentence of community service and probation because the case was treated as exceptional.

  • Drug offences
  • Sentencing of young offenders
  • Community service orders
  • Probation orders
  • Drug-offences
  • Young-offender-sentencing
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Criminal law [2021] JRC 222

AG v Buckley

AG v Buckley [2021] JRC 222 (25 August 2021)

Sentencing for a young defendant who imported MDMA and LSD and possessed cannabis. The court imposed concurrent community service rather than custody.

  • Drug importation
  • Possession of controlled substances
  • Sentencing of young offenders
  • Community service orders
  • Confiscation orders
  • Drug-importation
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Criminal law [2021] JRC 143

Y v AG 26-May-2021

Y v AG 26-May-2021 [2021] JRC 143 (26 May 2021)

The court reduced a young offender’s community service sentence to 180 hours and cut a driving disqualification from 12 months to 6 months.

  • Sentencing
  • Community service orders
  • Driving disqualification
  • Larceny
  • Carrying offensive weapon
  • Community-service-orders
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Criminal law [2021] JRC 085

AG v Burnside 24-Mar-2021

AG v Burnside 24-Mar-2021 [2021] JRC 085 (24 March 2021)

The Jersey Royal Court sentenced a 20-year-old first offender for importing LSD and related drug offending on bail to community service, probation, and treatment orders.

  • Drug offences
  • Importation of controlled substances
  • Sentencing of young offenders
  • Community service orders
  • Probation orders
  • Drug-offences
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Criminal law [2020] JRC 261

D v AG 16-Dec-2020

D v AG 16-Dec-2020 [2020] JRC 261 (16 December 2020)

The Royal Court allowed a sentence appeal in part, quashing youth detention for repeated dangerous driving and substituting 170 hours of community service.

  • Sentencing of young offenders
  • Dangerous driving
  • Custodial threshold
  • Community service orders
  • Dangerous-driving
  • Youth-sentencing
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