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The maximum sentencing powers of magistrates' courts are 12 months imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Some driving offences are punished by endorsement ( licence points ) and/or disqualification from driving for a period of time.
Magistrates' powers are restricted to a maximum custodial sentence of six months for one offence or 12 months for two triable either-way offences (i.e. those offences that can be heard at either the magistrates' court or the Crown Court). The maximum fine the magistrates' court can impose is £5,000.
Magistrates have a maximum sentencing power of up to 12 months' imprisonment, and/or an unlimited fine. [5] In practice, magistrates have a wide range of sentencing options, which include issuing fines, imposing community orders, or dealing with offences by means of a discharge.
Plans to double the length of jail sentences that can be handed out by magistrates are “a knee-jerk reaction” and will worsen the prisons overcrowding crisis, a lawyers’ group has said.
In the adult criminal court, magistrates have equal sentencing powers to district judges (formerly stipendiary magistrates) and deliver verdicts on both “summary” and “either way” offences that carry up to twelve months in prison, or an unlimited fine. [4]
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In the Crown Court sentences of between 14 days and 12 months in the Magistrates' Court sentences of between 14 days and 6 months may be suspended. [49] Custody for life. Exceptionally, a person aged 18–21 may be sentenced by the Crown Court to custody for life where a person aged 21 or over would be liable to imprisonment for life. [50]
The substance dependence stream: 12-month duration and only available in the Adelaide Magistrates Court (previously known as the Drug Court Program). The program includes bail but with home detention and electronic monitoring for the first three months and a night curfew for the remaining months. Additionally, there are drug-screening tests ...