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How judges decide sentencing

  • 29-08-2017 11:56am
    #1
    Count Marcula
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭


    Say someone pulls off a 7 grand fraud in the uK and gets caught, how does the judge decide how much he time he should serve?


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  • #2
    boogerballs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭boogerballs


    The UK (and Ireland) works off a "Common Law" approach where sentences are determined by what was previously given to people convicted of the same crime.

    For example if you stole a car and got 1 year in prison and I then stole a car the judge would only be able to punish me accordingly and give a similar sentence.

    This is different to other countries such as Spain who work off "Civil Law" where a judge can give any sentence they see fit.


  • #3
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Count Marcula wrote: »
    Say someone pulls off a 7 grand fraud in the uK and gets caught, how does the judge decide how much he time he should serve?

    Thread under moderator review.

    OP, please don't open any more new threads in this forum until a moderator of this forum says that you can go ahead to do so.


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