Ratio Decidendi

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NtheP (talk) 11:27, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Sentencing in England and Wales

Sentencing in E&W - that's quite a topic to take on. It looks like you're covering just the current framework, not the history? That's fine as an approach but you would need to mention this is the lead paragraph when you get round to writing it. You might also want to consider splitting youth sentencing off from adult as they are both large topics and doing both in one might lead to an article that is too bulky. NtheP (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

yes it is a long topic, i figure it will take me about one to two days, I shall be adding a history section (need to find my copy of the english legal system first) and current developments section. Feel free to add to it in my user space, hopefully I shall get around to publishing it in the main space tonight or tomorrow and get some did you knows on the main page. Once again thanks for the welcome.

Kind regards --Ratio Decidendi (talk) 11:43, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I've brought your reply over here so the conversation is in one place, I've got this page on my watch list for the time being so I can see if you reply or you can use {{talkback}} to leave me a notice on my talk page.

I was looking at the referencing you've used and some points which might help.

1. Ref names ref name="The Criminal Justice Act 2003 2003 c. 44 Part 12 Chapter 1 Matters to be taken into account in sentencing Section 142 is a bit long. The benefit of ref name is that it's easy to reuse - I's suggest something shorter like ref name=CJA2003s142 That way when you want reuse that reference later in the article then all you need to type is <ref name=CJA2003s142/> - note the / at the end of the name
2. Publisher and work in {{cite web}}. I'd suggest that the work is |work=legislation.gov.uk and publisher is |publisher=The National Archives Personally I wouldn't bother with Part and Chapter as the section number is specific enough to provide the location within the act, but I would include |isbn=9 780105 444039
3. Case citations. Try and avoid subscription websites like lexisweb especially if the summary available on the non subscription page doesn't directly support the point you're trying to make. If it's not available somewhere like http://www.bailii.org/ then use the print reference after a suitable quote e.g. It has been held that the purpose of sentencing is to protect the public . . .<ref>R v Winkler [2004] All ER (D) 33 (Sep) Rafferty J, page 34</ref>. Sadly there isn't a cite template for UK law reports yet so you have to be a bit creative ({{Cite court}} is very US-centric), the basis for referencing them is to be found at Case citation#United Kingdom.

Happy to help any further if I can. NtheP (talk) 13:52, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi - I have had a go at the first section of the article - I hope my changes are not considered to be too drastic. This is a huge subject and will require quite a lot of developing, although the basic approach is sound. So if you don't mind, I'll carry on copy editing over the next few days and adding a bit more legal info. and references where appropriate. All the best Shaibalahmar (talk) 10:23, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

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