Between 1881 and 1961, there were at least seven trials held in the Old High Court where the defendant was convicted of murder and subsequently executed. The death penalty was abolished after 1961.
Discretion is advised – the following accounts of crime…
… 2011 (CPA) provisions. Four High Court trials on hand remain to be dealt with under the previous legislation, the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (SPA).
Under the CPA, cases that are High Court-only offences (known as Category 4 cases and are generally mu…
… common.
There are some offences for which the Court of Appeal has considered it inappropriate to prescribe a sentencing range. One example of this is manslaughter, where the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. The worst cases of manslaughter are near…