Sentence examples for compensation orders from inspiring English sources

A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "We have always made it absolutely clear that offenders must pay compensation orders, victims surcharge and fines before the Criminal Courts Charge".

As compensation orders are made on or shortly after conviction, "up-front" presumably means before the defendant has been found guilty.

Judges tend to favour compensation orders, but this means the stalker is paying money into his victim's bank account, which is a reinforcement of a relationship for the stalker.

Creates new provisions relating to parental compensation orders, civil orders which require parents or guardians topay compensation for damages or losses created by a child under 10 (therefore under the age of criminal responsibility).

Ministers are also considering levying a victims' surcharge on criminals, on top of existing compensation orders, to create a fund that would provide help to all victims of crime.

So at the bottom of the sentencing menu, there is a concerted attempt to reinvent the fine, with the use of compensation orders, reparations to victims and seizing cars and other assets instead of lower-end community penalties.

The compensation order was eventually dropped by Virgin.

It could be given powers to award compensation, order the publication of apologies or corrections and grant injunctions.

At the moment, anyone convicted of assaulting a police officer in the line of duty faces a fine, imprisonment, a community payback order or a compensation order.

There have been 75 convictions for gangmaster offences since the Gangmaster Licensing Act regulating them came in to force, but only one compensation order for workers.

Today, Ms Rogers argued that MGN should be allowed to appeal on the grounds that the compensation order was too high and "disproportionate".