Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.

Jail sentences for some serious crimes could be reduced under a government review aimed at tackling the prison overcrowding ...

Counsel for Eric Chan Ho-lam, 32, on Friday asked Magistrate Kestrel Lam Tsz-hong at Kowloon City Court to impose a ...

“There is going to be a custodial sentence imposed,” Judge Aylmer said. “Given that this involved the penetration of a child ...

Breaking news. Peter Matika PUBLIC prosecutors have called on the Judiciary to implement stiffer sentences for armed robbers, ...

Anthony Ryan with an address at Macoyle Upper, Inch, Gorey, Co Wexford, deserved an "immediate custodial sentence", lawyers ...

A Wigan 20-year-old has received a suspended prison sentence for failing to stop when riding an e-bike on the road and ...

However, in remanding Doherty into custody at Castlerea Prison, Judge Aylmer warned that a custodial sentence is “inevitable” ...

A British woman who helped run a global monkey torture ring told police she wanted to abuse infant macaques because she had a ...

She is very remorseful for her actions which were quite simply unacceptable. “These offences mean that she is in breach of two suspended sentences. The first being theft and the second, disorderly ...

Russian raw food campaigner and lifestyle blogger Maxim Lyutyi has been accused of barring the baby's mum from breastfeeding.

Le Gresley was sentenced to two years in prison, Orme to 15 months.