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SC reports on improvements to online magistrates’ court sentencing guidelines

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Published on: 02 July 2024

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LNB News 02/07/2024

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Issue Date: 02 July 2024

Published Date: 02 July 2024

Jurisdiction(s): England and Wales

Article summary

The Sentencing Council (SC) has reported on a number of improvements it has made to the online magistrates’ court sentencing guidelines. The changes will take effect from 1 July 2024 and include upgrades to the search function to display results in a prioritised manner according to words and phrases and relevance, a new ‘offence’ filter on the search page and renaming explanatory materials to ‘supplementary information’ and adding a new tab to access this.

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