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Event: Perspectives on the 2025 Sentencing Bill
Hosted by the UCL Faculty of Laws’ Centre for Criminal Law in collaboration with the Sentencing Academy, this event offers expert insights into the 2025 Sentencing Bill. Attendees will hear three concise presentations exploring the Bill’s implications, followed by an interactive Q&A session. A must-attend for anyone interested in criminal justice reform and sentencing policy. […]
Finance and Accounting Trustee Vacancy
The Sentencing Academy is seeking to appoint a Finance and Accounting Trustee to our Board of Trustees to join its existing members: Professor Mike Hough (Chair); Bethany Currie; Anna Draper; Professor Peter Hungerford-Welch; and Orla Slattery. Who we are Launched in 2019, we are a small, dynamic charity with a unique mission to promote evidence-led […]
Totality
Totality comes into play when one of two situations arises during a sentencing exercise: Where someone is being sentenced for multiple offences and where an offender is already serving an existing sentence. The principle dictates that the total sentence passed should reflect the whole of the offending behaviour and factors personal to the offender as […]
Disproportionality in sentencing for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants
By Sarah Sawyerr JP In a truly fair and democratic society, its justice system should treat everyone equally under the law. When those laws are broken and an individual comes before the criminal justice system, our metaphorical scales which represent impartiality and the obligation of the law, through its representatives, must weigh the evidence equally […]
