compensation order

Under the English legal system judges must consider making a compensation order as part of the sentence for a crime.

Community service or compensation orders are examples of this sort of penalty.

The civil action cannot lead to prison sentences, but it can result in both public condemnation and substantial compensation orders.

The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so.

It must be clearly recognised that compensation orders are otherwise wholly independent of that exercise.

The Committee may impose unlimited penalties, compensation orders and cost orders.

Often in the past the Court has quashed the compensation order on this ground, leaving the appellant with the benefit of the mitigation.

The sale of unsuitable products, such as invalid insurance, is misselling, and has led to substantial compensation orders.

Compensation to the railway went to arbitration and lasted nearly five years, ending with a million-dollar compensation order paid for by the Commission.

The courts can also make ancillary orders such as costs, compensation orders, and driving disqualifications for road traffic offences.

Compensation order:

Wakefield SSD is to appeal against a £1,000 compensation order after a 14-year old child in its care was found guilty of mugging a pensioner.

Young Offenders receiving Referral Orders are too often given Compensation Orders as part of the sentence.

He routinely obtained interim injunctions, criminal penalties, compensation orders, freezing of assets and orders to liquidate assets.

Section 130 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 requires the courts to explain their reasoning if they do not issue a compensation order.

There is also a range of ancillary sentences available to the courts, such as compensation orders, costs, restraining orders and disqualification orders, depending on the type of offence.

Compensation orders are only spent once paid in full, but being bound over to keep the peace would be spent either at the end of the order or a year (depending which is longer).

The defendant comes to the Court of Appeal, asking that the compensation order should be quashed, on the ground that there is not reasonable prospect that he will be able to pay it.

Thus, while the criminal law is not generally a means of escaping civil obligations, the criminal courts may be able to offer some assistance to the gullible by returning their property or making compensation orders.

Since then these options have expanded to giving a warning, fiscal fines, compensation orders, work orders, road traffic fixed penalties or diversion from prosecution into social work, psychological counselling or psychiatric treatment.

Local authorities are also facing an increasing number of fines and compensation orders placed on them by magistrates when children in their care cause damage in the community, even though they cannot exercise the same rights of control as parents.

(S.) 65) that the Court of Appeal is less likely to be persuaded to quash the compensation order in such cases, where the offender in the Crown Court has caused specific information relating to his finances to be put before the court.

Successive acts have altered the shape of the structure; either by adding bits on (parole, community service orders, compensation orders, contract prisons), or, less often, by taking bits off (corporal punishment, detention centres, partly suspended sentences, the remand of juveniles to prison).

He pleaded guilty to the charge on 12 March, and in July received court imposed sanctions including a three-month intensive correctional order, probation, 100 hours of community service, an $8,000 compensation order paid to the victims and further court approved counselling for his alcohol and anger management issues.