R v Lendrum
Thirty month imprisonment for offence of burglary - whether excessive or wrong in principle - activation of suspended sentence.
[1993] 7 NIJB 78 Hutton LCJ7357 results
R v Michael Malachy Murray
Manslaughter - stabbing - provocation - whether sentence of 10 years excessive - gravity of offence against mitigating factors.
R v Murray 160793 Hutton LCJ
Attorney General's Reference (No.2 of 1993)
Thirty month imprisonment for offence of burglary - elderly victim - suspended sentence - exceptional mitigating circumstances - whether unduly lenient.
[1993] 5 NIJB 71 Hutton LCJ
Cosgrove v Cathcart
BT/31/1993 Mr Jacobson
Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1993)
Sentencing - Wounding with intent - Sentence of 6 months' imprisonment and payment of £500 compensation - Whether unduly lenient - whether court should exercise discretion not to increase sentence where unduly lenient when term of imprisonment already served.
[1993] NI38 Hutton LCJ
R v Rowden & Toal
Burglary - offences committed while appellant on bail for another offence - totality of consecutive sentences - disparity between co-accused in respect of the number and quality of their previous convictions - discount for plea of guilty when appellant caught red handed.
R v Rowden & Toal 050293 Hutton LCJ
R v David John O'Neill & Brian Jack Archibald
Robbery with violence - mitigating factors - alcoholic - plea of guilty.
R v O'Neill & Archibald 280193 Kelly LJ
R v Donal Gregory Carroll and Ailish Carroll
Possession of firearms with intent to endanger life - whether 22 years excessive - deterrent sentences for terrorists.
[1992] 11 NIJB 93 MacDermott LJ
Attorney General's Reference No.2 of 1992
Sentencing - sentence of 5 years - whether unduly lenient.
AG Ref No.2 of 1992 Hutton LCJ
Attorney General's Reference (No's 3 and 4 of 1992)
Grievous bodily harm with intent - throwing of petrol bombs and arson - aiding offence - sentenced to probation with conditions - length of detention for young offender - whether unduly lenient.
[1992] NI 187 Hutton LCJ
R v Stephen McMullan
Taking motor vehicle without owner's consent; criminal damage; reckless driving; driving whilst uninsured and disqualified - "joyrider" - concurrent and consecutive sentences and operation of previously imposed suspended sentence.
McMullan 090992 Hutton LCJ
Sawyers v Nesbitt
BT/52/1992 Mr Jacobson
Gerard Majella O'Neill
Possession of firearm with intent - sentence of 12 years' imprisonment imposed - offence committed while on licence from prison - order to return to prison to complete sentence - whether imposition of consecutive sentence excessive.
[1992] NI 333 Hutton LCJ
R v Robert Alexander Skelton & Dale Mooney
Attempted robbery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm - imprisonment for 14 and 12 years - elderly victim - savage and prolonged attack - deterrent sentences - appropriate discount for late plea of guilty - accused alcoholic - whether relevant that accused under influence of drink - whether excessive or wrong in principle.
[1992] NIJB 26 Hutton LCJ
Watson v King
BT/129/1991 Mr Jacobson
Samuel Johnston & Anr v Andras House
BT/123, 124 & 125/1991 Gibson LJ , Mr Jacobson
Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1991)
Defendants assaulted police officers in an effort to escape after committing burglary - distinction between attempt to resist arrest and intent to inflict grievous bodily harm - concurrent and consecutive sentence - whether sentence for initial offence should be fixed independently of assault - whether sentence unduly lenient.
[1991] 9 NIJB 72 Hutton LCJ
R v Raymond Gerard Quigg
Making property available for use in connection with terrorism - whether sentence of 10 years manifestly excessive - weight given to the physical condition and personal history of the appellant.
[1991] 9 NIJB 38 Hutton LCJ
Riverside Snooker Club v Lamont (Holdings)
BT/65/1991 Mr Jacobson
R v Stuart James Gouldie
Suspended sentence - activation - factors to be taken into account by Court - whether sentence should be activated in its entirety.
R v Gouldie 081191 Hutton LCJ