SENTENCING

04 April 2008

Issue: 7315 / Categories: Case law , Law digest

R (White) v Crown Court at Blackfriars [2008] EWHC 510 (Admin)

A football banning order under s 14A of the Football Spectators Act 1989 should be imposed only where there are strong grounds for concluding that the individual subject of the order has a propensity for taking part in football hooliganism.

The court is entitled to take into account and to give great weight to deterrence; there are clear benefits in it being widely known that a person who assaults an official at a football match is liable to be made the subject of a football banning order even if the incident was, for that person, an isolated one.

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SENTENCING

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Corker Binning—Priya Dave