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Jakob Mahoney v The Attorney General

The Royal Court refused Jakob Mahoney’s application to extend time to appeal his sentence and convictions, finding no realistic prospect of success.

  • Extension of time
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Appeal against conviction after guilty plea
  • Guilty plea
  • Assault
  • Drug possession
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Criminal law [2026] JRC 098

Mahoney v AG (Royal Court : Hearing

Mahoney v AG (Royal Court : Hearing (Criminal) : Temple) [2026] JRC 098 (16 April 2026)

The Royal Court refused an extension of time to appeal conviction and sentence, finding minimal merit in the proposed appeal and no exceptional grounds after guilty pleas.

  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Appeal against conviction
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Guilty plea
  • Magistrate's court guidelines
  • Extension-of-time-to-appeal
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Criminal law [2026] JRC 022

Da SIlva v AG (Royal Court : Hearing

Da SIlva v AG (Royal Court : Hearing (Criminal) : Binnington) [2026] JRC 022 (21 January 2026)

The Royal Court set aside and then reimposed a 10-month sentence for grave and criminal assault, holding the Magistrate had wrongly treated sentencing policy as binding.

  • Sentencing policy
  • Grave and criminal assault
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Custodial vs non-custodial sanctions
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Appeal-against-sentence
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Criminal law [2025] JRC 324

James v AG (Royal Court : Appeal

James v AG (Royal Court : Appeal (Criminal) : Bailhache, W) [2025] JRC 324 (5 December 2025)

The Royal Court refused an out-of-time criminal appeal from a guilty plea for common assault, finding no arguable basis to challenge conviction or sentence.

  • Appeal against conviction
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Extension of time
  • Guilty plea
  • Disclosure
  • Unlawful arrest
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Criminal law [2025] JRC 224

Steenson v AG (Royal Court : Hearing

Steenson v AG (Royal Court : Hearing (Criminal) : Le Cocq) [2025] JRC 224 (16 September 2025)

The Royal Court of Jersey dismissed David Samuel Steenson’s sentence appeal, holding that a seven-month prison term for drink driving and dangerous driving was not manifestly excessive.

  • Appeal against sentence
  • Drink driving
  • Dangerous driving
  • Failing to stop after accident
  • Sentencing guidelines
  • Mitigation
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Criminal law [2025] JCA 093

AG v Tremarco (Court of Appeal : Appeal

AG v Tremarco (Court of Appeal : Appeal (Criminal)) [2025] JCA 093 (4 April 2025)

The Jersey Court of Appeal allowed the Attorney General’s sentence reference, finding a community service order for repeated domestic violence and strangulation was unduly lenient.

  • Domestic violence
  • Sentencing
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Unduly lenient sentence
  • Community service order
  • Custodial sentence
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 205

Gomes v AG

Gomes v AG [2024] JRC 205 (04 October 2024)

Appeal dismissed against a 6-month driving disqualification and ÂŁ2,000 fine for causing serious injury by careless driving. The court held the sentence was not manifestly excessive.

  • Careless driving
  • Causing serious injury
  • Sentencing guidelines
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Careless-driving
  • Causing-serious-injury
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Criminal law [2023] JRC 207

Turner v AG

Turner v AG [2023] JRC 207 (07 November 2023)

The Royal Court dismissed a sentence appeal for careless driving, upholding a ÂŁ5,000 fine and 12-month disqualification as neither manifestly excessive nor wrong in principle.

  • Careless driving
  • Sentencing guidelines
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Disqualification from driving
  • Fines
  • Careless-driving
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Criminal law [2022] JRC 142

Carys Ann Ingram v AG

Carys Ann Ingram v AG [2022] JRC 142 (29 June 2022)

Appeal against sentence for breaches of Jersey Covid-19 regulations partially succeeded; the fine for Regulation 8 was reduced to ÂŁ5,000, with the Regulation 4 fine left unchanged.

  • Covid-19 regulations
  • Sentencing
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Sentencing-appeal
  • Covid-19-regulations
  • Public-health-offences
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Criminal law [2018] JCA 217

Arthur v AG

Arthur v AG [2018] JCA 217 (28 November 2018)

The Court of Appeal granted leave but dismissed Richard Arthur’s appeal against a seven-year fraud sentence, holding the sentence was not manifestly excessive.

  • Fraud
  • Sentencing
  • Mitigation
  • Consecutive sentences
  • Financial services sector
  • Appeal against sentence
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