Nov. 27 2023
Source Page: Murder sentencingFound: Murder sentencing
Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws. - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) If we adopted that honesty in sentencing, many of the people that the hon. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) and attempted homicide cases in February 2023. - Speech Link
Nov. 27 2023
Source Page: Murder sentencingFound: Murder sentencing
Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) If there were to be legislation, it should be a wholesale reform of the law of homicide. - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) Many of these matters will require consideration —and, on the homicide angle, the involvement, I hope - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We have worked with the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for homicide, Kate Meynell, to appoint a - Speech Link
Correspondence Nov. 29 2023
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, dated 24 November on the Consultation on Murder Sentencing
Found: LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL _ Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end insert “, including the death by homicide
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws, yet no assessment of the reasons for this shocking - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws? - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws? - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) All three new clauses illustrate the need for a sentencing review for serious road traffic offences, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) remarks to be made available at the judge’s discretion or measures to provide families bereaved by homicide - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) To help with court transcription costs, we have made sure that bereaved family members of victims of homicide - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the sentencing framework for perpetrators of coercive control.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The sentencing framework is kept under constant review by the Government. However, sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the independent courts in accordance with the sentencing guidelines, developed by the independent Sentencing Council.
The Government created the offence of Controlling and Coercive Behaviour in the Serious Crime Act 2015. Since the offence came into force in 2016, the number of people sentenced for this offence has consistently increased, nearing tenfold. The average custodial sentence length has also increased from 17.1 to 24.4 months.
In response to the independent Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review undertaken by Clare Wade KC, we have introduced legislation to create new statutory aggravating and mitigating factors for murders preceded by controlling and coercive behaviour.
The Sentencing Council have recently consulted on making a similar change to the manslaughter sentencing guideline. The Council have also introduced the Domestic Abuse Overarching Principles guideline, which came into force in May 2018. It identifies the principles relevant to the sentencing of cases involving domestic abuse, including the offence of controlling and coercive behaviour. The Council is planning to review this guideline in 2024.
Nov. 27 2023
Source Page: Consultation on tougher sentences for knife and domestic killersFound: Public conversation launched on reforming murder sentencing Consultation to consider raising starting