Practice and Procedure

R v (1) RAE STOCKDALE (2) BRENDAN GERARD FLYNN (3) JULIE DAWN TANKARD (2005)

PUBLISHED October 3, 2005
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Contrary to the Sentencing Guidelines Council's guidelines in relation to the use of information about the prevalence of particular offences in an area when sentencing, it was difficult to accept that a local judge was not entitled to use his local knowledge but had to have evidence of conditions in the relevant area.

[2005] EWCA Crim 1582

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