Keegan LCJ
Offences
UKSC 14 [2023]
Morgan and others (Respondents) v Ministry of Justice (Appellant) (Northern Ireland)
[2022] NICA 78
King v Luong Bui
Fowler J , Horner LJ , Keegan LCJ
Application to appeal sentence – cultivation of cannabis – abstracting electricity – assisting unlawful immigration – perverting the course of justice – three cannabis factories – strategic control of substantial, sophisticated and highly profitable enterprise – whether sentence for cannabis factory counts too high – whether three year consecutive sentence on top of already stiff sentence manifestly excessive – totality – deterrent sentence of 12 years appropriate – proper global sentence 13 years – leave granted – appeal allowed – sentence perverting the course of justice reduced to 1 year consecutive to other counts – total custodial sentence 13 years
Documents
[2022] NICA 62
The King v Filippo Sangermano
Fowler J , McBride J , McCloskey LJ
actual bodily harm – stabbing with nail scissors – whether sentence manifestly excessive and/or wrong – whether level of culpability unsupported by basis of plea – finding of dangerous – whether VOPO necessary – terms of extended custodial sentence licence – right to a fair trial – burden of proof on prosecution in sentencing process – compilation of pre-sentence reports – duties owed by counsel to sentencing court – appeal granted