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The fifth edition provides the definitive work for determining the sentence for virtually all prosecuted offences. The offences dealt with range from smoking and parking to whole life murder and terrorism. The book also enables the reader to know what the Judge is likely to have been reading before s/he passes sentence.

Recent Statutes

Bribery Act 2010
Bribery Act 2010 Explanatory Note
Crime and Security Act 2010
Crime and Security Act 2010 Explanatory Note
Digital Economy Act 2010
Digital Economy Act 2010 Explanatory Note

New or Amended Guidelines

Guidelines - Definitive
Click here for the Corporate Manslaughter & Health and Safety Offences Causing Death Guidelines
Click here for the Magistratrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines
(as amended including the amendments made in October 2009)
Click here for the Fraud Definitive Guideline
Click here for the Youths, Sentencing of Definitive Guideline

Proposed Guidelines

Click here for Consultation Paper on Sentencing for Drug Offences

"There is no other sentencing guide so comprehensive, so well arranged and so keenly priced. It is always my first port of call and I regard it as an essential purchase for practitioners."
Paul Mendelle QC
Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association 2009-10



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