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They are next due to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 24 January. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds , catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you ...
Until the mid-1990s, all Crown Court cases were heard in the Sheffield Old Town Hall in Waingate. [1] However, as the number of court cases in Sheffield grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse for criminal matters: the sloping site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department had been occupied by the Surrey Music Hall, a venue which dated from 1849, and, after the ...
The Sheffield incest case concerns the conviction in November 2008 in Sheffield Crown Court of a 54-year-old English man who, undetected over a period of 25 years, repeatedly raped his two daughters and fathered seven surviving children with them. Apparently unrepentant, he received 25 concurrent life sentences and is required to serve a ...
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In 2007, there were 91 locations in England and Wales at which the Crown Court regularly sat. [4] Crown Court centres are designated in one of three tiers: first-tier centres are visited by High Court judges for criminal and also for civil cases (in the District Registry of the High Court); second-tier centres are visited by High Court judges for criminal work only; and third-tier centres are ...
The Crown Court is the only court in England and Wales that has the jurisdiction to try cases on indictment, and when exercising such a role, it is a superior court in that its judgments cannot be reviewed by the Administrative Court of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. The Crown Court is an inferior court in respect of the other ...
The current Crown Court was established on 1 January 1972 by the Courts Act 1971, [6] establishing a unitary trial court for the whole jurisdiction. With the merging of the various court services into what is now HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the Crown Court frequently shares facilities with the County Court and magistrates' courts.