Example sentences of "judges ' tariff " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judges ' tariff is now publicly available , from the law reports ( including in particular guideline cases on sentencing for particular crimes ) , and the Encyclopaedia of Current Sentencing Practice . |
| 2 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 3 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
| 4 | But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal . |
| 5 | Thus far I have been careful to refer to ‘ the judges ' tariff , ’ for such it is . |
| 6 | He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 8 | I have already accepted that the judges are the best persons to say what the judges ' tariff is , as Watkins L.J . |
| 9 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |