Sentences with phrase «time offender where»

The range for a first time offender where the offence concerns the neglect of the elderly will often be between 4 and 8 months.

Not exact matches

When you come to a place where you have an insight or find an issue which is truly important to you, it is time to present your case to your offender.

At a time when the public purse is under pressure, these funds could be better spent on «diversion» programmes where offenders are helped to access community support programmes rather than locked up in overcrowded prisons.

The question of when a trial starts, as a trigger for an additional costs payment, has been an issue for some time, coming to the fore under the pre-LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012) success fee regime where a higher success fee was payable where a case concluded at trial.

The powerful use of Virtual Reality to place you in the same situation as a witness, an offender or victim, to validate or invalidate statements, has the potential to impact heavily on the judicial process and offer new insight into case specifics, where human memory and testimony may have been blurred over time, shock or other factors.

If anything, cultural beliefs may be an aggravating factor enhancing the need for specific deterrence in cases where the sentencing judge is satisfied that the offender continues to maintain those views at the time of sentencing.»

Where an offender who has attained the age of 18 is convicted of an offence committed while under the age of 18, his culpability is to be judged by reference to his age at the time of the offence.

Where is the logic in the taxpayer being liable to pay damages to the victim 10 or 15 years after the event, whereas the offender enjoys the protection of a strict six - year time bar as an absolute defence to a damages claim?

For first - time offenders, where there wasn't a car accident or any bodily injury, refusing to take a breathalyzer will likely subject you to greater penalties.