Article: Appeal court slammed for taking a soft line on rape; Reduced sentences the rule not the exception, say advocates.(News)

Article: Appeal Court Keeps Life Sentence on ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 4, 2000 ;     318 words ... ... Cambodian Court of Appeals Wednesday maintained the verdict, pronounced by the Municipal Court last June which passed life sentence on Noun Paet for murdering three western tourists in 1994 in Kompot province, southern Cambodia. Nuon Paet, aged ...

Article: Appeal court cuts 'life' sentence for ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  October 4, 2006 ;     471 words ... ... sitting with Mr Justice Grig-son and Judge Moss QC at the Appeal Court in London, ruled it was not an appropriate case for an IPP ... s sentence to a conventional three-year jail term. The appeal court heard Swinscoe suffered from a brain problem that made it ...

Article: Pub attacker loses plea on life sentence.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 13, 2002 ;     473 words ... ... HAYLEY CUTHBERTSON THE Appeal Court yesterday upheld a mandatory life sentence handed down to a Coventry ... line. Three judges at the Appeal Court in London yesterday heard ... should not have been given a life sentence. She said there had been ...

Article: Gay attacker wins sentence appeal; Criminal Appeal ...
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  December 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... sitting at London's Criminal Appeal Court overturned that life sentence after hearing arguments from ... and, after quashing his life sentence, instead imposed an indeterminate ... offence was so serious that a life sentence was necessary.

Article: Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader
Xinhua News Agency;  December 5, 2006 ;     346 words ...Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader PHNOM ... Xinhua) -- Cambodia's appeal court here on Tuesday upheld the life sentence for a former Democratic Kampuchea ... Western backpackers in 1994. Appeal court judge Um Sarith insisted ...

Article: Kuwait's highest court upholds life sentence for ...
AP Worldstream;  December 21, 2004 ;     491 words ... ... Dateline: KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's highest appeal court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a Muslim fundamentalist who shot dead ... was commuted to life imprisonment by an appeal court late last year. Defense lawyer Osama al ...

Article: HENDY-FREEGARD APPEALS AGAINST LIFE SENTENCE.
Worksop Guardian (Worksop, England);  April 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... spy to con his unsuspecting victims out of [pounds sterling]1million, will begin an Appeal Court challenge against his convictions and life sentence today (Tuesday, April 24). Hendy-Freegard, 34 at the time of trial, was convicted ...