The last is commonly regarded to have been at Coniston, Northern Territory, in 1928 – notwithstanding the countless other acts of extreme violence (including custodial deaths) inextricably linked to colonialism, that have since been perpetrated against Indigenous Australians.
It, in effect it says that fines and community penalties are abolished for rioters and suspends the carefully constructed sentencing process comprised in the guidelines, which would inevitably result in some non-custodial penalties.
The Common Serjeant of London, Richard Marks QC, told Norman he had decided on an immediate custodial sentence because of the "scope and scale of the offending", but had reduced the term from 30 months to 20 after hearing that he was the sole carer for his sick wife.
I particularly also want to ask you about the penalties available, because I notice from media coverage that the individual who disrupted the Boat Race appears to have been charged with a section 5 offence under the Public Order Act 1986, which is one of the most minor offences in the book, carries no custodial penalty option at all and usually only results in a small fine.
Mote was released on bail on Friday, but the judge, Justice Stuart Smith, said there was a strong likelihood that he would be given a custodial sentence.
They say that the vast majority of arrests were politically motivated – particularly those for picket-line offences, for which miners were threatened with custodial sentences but offered less severe punishment if they accepted bail conditions that prohibited them from picketing.
Lord Baker, when home secretary, thought of rationing jail-crazy magistrates to a fixed number of cells each week, after filling which they would not be able to give custodial sentences.
Serious custodial sentences must follow for "rioters" but, whatever the prime minister says, the judiciary's role is to dispense individual justice.
Breach of Asbo can attract custodial sentence even if the original behaviour couldn't.
Gove should be as angered by this failing prison system as he was by failing schools; even his new department knows non-custodial sentences are more effective than a short spell inside from its own studies.
Ministers have been silent on the sentencing aspects of this bill but the Conservative manifesto promised the introduction of short, sharp custodial sentences for persistent offenders.
