Criminal Law Updates from April

This presentation is the 5th in what will be a monthly presentation examining important documents that I have been reading in a given month – I shall choose documents of relevance and importance to anyone involved in the area of criminal law – each presentation will last

for 30 minutes and will give you the ‘distilled essence’ of the documents considered – all of the actual documents will also be available for you to read at your leisure as part of the presentation material provided.

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Learning objectives:

This presentation will cover 17 documents in total – here are just 3 examples of the things you will learn:

1 – Statutory Instrument 2023 No. 298 – reduction in Magistrates’ sentencing powers

2 – Statutory Instrument 2023 No.441 dealing with the April 2023 amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 (as amended)

3 – The new Guidelines published by the Sentencing Council concerning the sale of knives etc by individuals and organisations and cruelty to a child/causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm or die.