Offences
- Created by: kdixon08
- Created on: 28-04-14 08:52
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- Offences
- Summary Offences
- Driving without insurance
- Magistrates' Court
- Not paying TV licence
- Indictable
- Crown Court
- Murder
- ****
- Triable either way
- Theft
- Crown Court or Magistrates' Court
- ABH
- Mode of Trial
- Plea before venue (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996)
- Hears defendant's plea to decide where to send for jurisdiction
- Guilty
- Immediately proceed towards sentencing
- Sentence forthwith
- Order pre-sentence report either later that day or after adjournment
- Defendant committed to the Crown Court for sentencing
- Immediately proceed towards sentencing
- Not Guilty
- Mode of Trial
- Plea before venue (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996)
- Hears defendant's plea to decide where to send for jurisdiction
- Guilty
- Immediately proceed towards sentencing
- Sentence forthwith
- Order pre-sentence report either later that day or after adjournment
- Defendant committed to the Crown Court for sentencing
- Immediately proceed towards sentencing
- Not Guilty
- Magistrates decide whether they accept or reject jusrisdiction
- Accept
- Defendant chooses which court to be held in
- Magistrates' Court
- Advantages
- Case solved quicker
- Lower possible sentence
- Disadvantages
- Less effective legal representation
- Greater chance of conviction
- Advantages
- Crown Court
- Advantages
- Better legal representation
- Greater chance of acquittal
- Time on remand (more privileges) counts as time served
- Time in custody counts as part of sentence
- Disadvantages
- Delays
- Higher possible sentence
- Judge likely to impose immediate prison sentence
- Sentence on average 2 and a half times longer
- Advantages
- Magistrates' Court
- Defendant chooses which court to be held in
- Rely on their clerk
- Any representations by the prosecution or defence
- Whether the Magistrates have adequate sentencing powers
- Seriousness of the offence
- Nature of the case
- Reject
- Defendant sent to Crown Court
- Accept
- Plea before venue (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996)
- Mode of Trial
- Magistrates decide whether they accept or reject jusrisdiction
- Accept
- Defendant chooses which court to be held in
- Magistrates' Court
- Advantages
- Case solved quicker
- Lower possible sentence
- Disadvantages
- Less effective legal representation
- Greater chance of conviction
- Advantages
- Crown Court
- Advantages
- Better legal representation
- Greater chance of acquittal
- Time on remand (more privileges) counts as time served
- Time in custody counts as part of sentence
- Disadvantages
- Delays
- Higher possible sentence
- Judge likely to impose immediate prison sentence
- Sentence on average 2 and a half times longer
- Advantages
- Magistrates' Court
- Defendant chooses which court to be held in
- Rely on their clerk
- Any representations by the prosecution or defence
- Whether the Magistrates have adequate sentencing powers
- Seriousness of the offence
- Nature of the case
- Reject
- Defendant sent to Crown Court
- Accept
- Plea before venue (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996)
- Summary Offences
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