crown court

[snugglecuddle]

Can someone please tell wot it means when a case is sent from magistrates court to crown court for a Plea and Case Management Hearing

[ferferksake]

Generally, in my (albeit limited) experience, it is because the alleged offence is of a more serious nature and outside of the Magistrates' powers to deal with it.

[Count-A-Strong]

From another popular answer site (but not as good as this one):

In the UK a plea and case management hearing is one of the first hearings at the Crown Court, once the case has been sent there from the Magistrates' Court. The accused can enter a plea of guilty or not guilty and if the plea is not guilty, the case management part then takes place. This deals with issues that affect the length of the trial or measures needed to make the trial run smoothly such as number of witnesses for the prosecution and for the defence, whether any of the witnesses are child witnesses or whether any evidence will be given by videolink (evidence given live from another venue, seen in the trial courtroom on TV screens) and so on. If the plea by the accused is guilty then usually the case is put off to a later date for a pre-sentence report (report by Probation or Youth Offending Service giving details of the convicted persons background/social circumstances etc). It would be unusual, but not impossible, for sentence to be passed at this stage. Hope this helps.

[snugglecuddle]

thanx i understand know guess it also means the case will drag on even longer like its not been long enough already :-(

[mollykins]

There's a maximum sentence a magistrate can give you, so if the offence warrants you to have a worse sentence it has to be sent to a higher court.

[snugglecuddle]

dont think it can get much worse than abh on a child pleased he will get bigger sentance by sounds of it but sad for my daughter who will have to re live it again altho be it by tv link still not right she has to go through all again :-(

[snugglecuddle]

what were the charges to the case you refering to eddie and what did they get x

[Thekopman]

You seem to have posted this question twice.I am the case I believe Eddie is talking about.Have a look at me questions and that may answer some questions?

[Thekopman]

I have a guy doing community service with me at present and he got 200hrs and a 6mth suspended sentence. This was ABH on his own wife, but if we are talking about a child involved I would say jail is likely.I dont know a lot about the case in question Snuggle?

[snugglecuddle]

Hi Thekopman if you have look at my profile my first question i posted details wot has been going on bout my daughter update yesterday he still wont plea on abh of my daughter altho he pleaded guilty for common assault with beating on myself and bystander the magistrate yesterday has quoshed his plea and put forward all 3 charges to crown in months time which is y i was originally asking bout wot was ment by plea and case management hearing which that will be he has been told yesterday by the court he has now lost his possible reduced sentence now cause he still not made a guilty plea on the ABH charges

[Thekopman]

I have to say there wasnt one full stop in your last post which made it hard for me to understand but by the sounds of the amount of charges etc this is more complex than I need get involved with so I will duck out of this thread.

Good luck anyway Snuggle!

[snugglecuddle]

Lol Sorry bout lack of full stops ......... lol i have just been reading your very first post glad it worked well in the end for you lets hope my ex isnt as lucky tho xx take care

[Thekopman]

Yep - good luck Snuggle - I cant judge to be honest as I have just been convicted myself. I can see how your situation is very different though so good luck with whatever you want!