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Sentenced to read Jane Austen

On 16 December, those of us who are fans of Jane Austen celebrated her 250th birthday with tea and crumpets though, sadly, we can no longer have a nice peat briquette fire at which to toast them. It also brought to mind the fairly recent English case of Ben John who, at the time of his arrest, was a 21-year-old student (studying criminology and psychology). He was found to ha...


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Increasing sentence following a defence appeal

A convicted person who appeals against sentence to the Court of Appeal naturally hopes to achieve some reduction in their sentence, but there is always the possibility that it will be increased. And since the sentence in question is almost invariably one of imprisonment, the risk of this happening must always be taken seriously. Further, the appellant is not normally made awa...


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Does Ireland have an age of criminal responsibility and, if not, what should it be?

The age of criminal responsibility has once more become an issue following the publication of the General Scheme of a Children (Amendment) Bill 2024. This makes no reference to the age of criminal responsibility, but submissions from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) to the Oireachtas Committee charged with subjecting the Bil...


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The unbearable length of some recent Irish judgments

The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite novels and I have recently read it for (probably) the third time. What makes it great is not just the story it tells and the way in which Scott Fitzgerald uses that story to expose the emptiness and, at times, the cruelty of the American Dream, but also the extraordinary fluency and economy with which it is written. ...


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The sentence for murder

The mandatory life sentence for murder has long been a contentious issue. It undoubtedly has many supporters, but there have also been suggestions for reform, ranging from making life imprisonment the maximum rather than the mandatory penalty to maintaining the mandatory penalty but allowing or requiring judges to specify the minimum term an offender should serve before being...


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