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  1. His Honour Judge John Richard Platt has retired as a Circuit Judge 8:34 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for iPhone
  2. His Honour Judge David Rowland Swift has retired as a Circuit Judge 8:34 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for iPhone
  3. District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) Ian Michael Baker has retired 8:33 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for iPhone
  4. Nottingham Crown Court: HH Judge Michael Stokes QC, Recorder of Nottingham, sentences 14 over August riots bit.ly/M6VPvp 6:28 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for iPhone
  5. The facts behind the figures just tweeted can be read here justice.gov.uk/downloads/stat… 5:11 AM Jun 1st via web
  6. 2011 figure of 851,600 fines represents a decrease of 4.7% compared to 2010, + the lowest number of fines handed out over last 11 years. 5:10 AM Jun 1st via web
  7. Fines are the most common sentence passed at court, accounting for around two-thirds of all sentences handed out by the criminal courts 5:09 AM Jun 1st via web
  8. In 2011, 47,800 people (or 3.7% of those sentenced) were given a Suspended Sentence Order, a 0.7% decrease compared with 2010. 5:09 AM Jun 1st via web
  9. In 2011, 173,400 people (or 13.3% of those sentenced) were given a Community Sentence, an 8.4% decrease compared with 2010. 5:09 AM Jun 1st via web
  10. In 2011, the Average Custodial Sentence Length (ACSL) was 14.7 months 5:08 AM Jun 1st via web
  11. Of the 1.30m offenders sentenced during 2011, there were 102,700 persons sentenced to immediate custody, an increase of 1.2 per cent 5:07 AM Jun 1st via web
  12. convictions for indictable offences remained broadly flat over the same period,conviction ratio from 70.1% in 2004 to 81.8% in 2011 5:07 AM Jun 1st via web
  13. For the more serious indictable offences, prosecutions have fallen by 8.7 per cent since 2004. 5:06 AM Jun 1st via web
  14. Prosecutions and convictions peaked in 2004, and have since fallen by 22.9 per cent and 16.0 per cent respectively. 5:05 AM Jun 1st via web
  15. 2011, there were 1.56m defendants proceeded against in magistrates’ courts and 1.30m offenders convicted and sentenced at all courts. 5:05 AM Jun 1st via web
  16. There were 127,500 PNDs issued in 2011. This was 9.4 per cent fewer than the 140,800 in 2010 and 38.6% fewer than the 207,500 in 2007 5:04 AM Jun 1st via web
  17. There were 232,200 cautions administered in 2011. This represents a 4.4 per cent decrease compared with 2010 5:03 AM Jun 1st via web
  18. Since 2007, the use of out of court disposals has decreased by 34.4 per cent (from 669,900 to 439,400 in 2011). 5:02 AM Jun 1st via web
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