Banks on Sentence for iPad
Available from the Apple iTunes Store now. Click here to launch iTunes. Click here for more details.
The App has the following features:
Favourites The user can choose to ‘save’ sections of the text into individual folders, each relating to a specific client or hearing. Each folder can be given a client’s name, date or other reference.
Guidelines The App contains all the Sentencing Council and Sentencing Guidelines Council guidelines in full.
History The App has a History feature.
Index The complete index, with over 7,000 entries, all electronically linked to the relevant paragraph.
Search facility There is a full search function for both the text and the index.
Text This App has all the text contained in the printed Volumes 1 and 2, with minor improvements.
Updates Regular updates can be downloaded free of charge which will then be incorporated into the text

Banks on Sentence Compact
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Price Web £34 RRP £36

Portability At 704 pages and only 17mm thick, Banks on Sentence Compact is truly portable, enabling the busy Magistrates' and Crown Court practitioner to take with them everything they need to know.

  • 109 chapters dealing with offences, 87 chapters dealing with the sentencing orders and other miscellaneous chapters.  
  • For a list of chapters, click here
  • The endorsement codes and prison in default periods
  • Summaries of almost all the sentencing guidelines
  • The mode of trial, maximum sentence and ancillary orders for virtually all prosecuted offences
  • Well over 100 cases which have been reported since the main work was published
  • Almost all the statistics in the main work
  • Over 1,700 index entries
  • Full guide to totting up 
  • 704 pages 
     
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Banks on Sentence Volumes 1 and 2
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Price: £94 on our website  £106 RRP
There are discounts for bulk orders.

Banks on Sentence is now published in two volumes. Volume 1 is a new book which sets out the sentencing principles, the sentencing procedures and the law for sentencing orders. Volume 2 is the 6th edition of Banks on Sentence, the definitive work for determining the sentence for virtually all prosecuted offences.

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Robert's Postbag

Robert receives hundreds of letters from prisoners asking for advice. Some have received unlawful sentences. Each one is answered and a selection of answers are published in Inside Time, the prisoner's newspaper. To see the letters and the replies, click here.

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“Time was when advocates could leave sentencing to the judge and even relax a little in the final stages of a case. The last twenty years have seen a tidal wave of new sentences, ancillary orders, registers and other bolt ons introduced by a large number of different statutes affecting sentencing. Not only is the subject now beset with complexity and "elephant traps" but the Court of Appeal Criminal Division expect advocates to ensure the Judge does not fall into error. CBA members will extend a heartfelt welcome to the new Volume 1 of Banks on Sentence. At last we will have the answers to a wide range of sentencing problems in one place and with a straightforward index. Bravo Banks”

Christopher Kinch QC
Chairman of the Criminal Bar 2010 to 2011