This site will continue to grow and have new content and tools added. If you need help urgently, please call 020 7071 5793. If there is additional material you need, or you have trouble finding something, please let us know by emailing We aim to respond to emails within 24 hours. New guidelines are automatically added to the MCSG app. New guidelines are added to the list of offences in purple to clearly distinguish between those guidelines that have yet to come into force and those already in force. When we publish new guidelines, we flag changes on the MCSG updates page of this website and in the app. You can download the MCSG app to your own iPad free of charge from the App Store. If you do not have access to wifi, the magistrates’ court sentencing guidelines (MCSG) are also available as an app. Sentencing guidelines app for use offline There is more information on the data collection page. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH)/ Racially or religiously aggravated ABH.

Common assault or Racially or religiously aggravated common assault.

Thank you in anticipation of your support. If you are about to sentence or have just sentenced an offender for one of the following as their principal offence, then please complete a form. The Council is running a data collection exercise in all magistrates’ courts in England and Wales between 9 January and 30 June 2023.

Additional note: Availability of ancillary orders.

Automatic orders on conviction for sexual offences Forfeiture or suspension of liquor licence Forfeiture and destruction of weapons orders Forfeiture and destruction of goods bearing unauthorised trade mark Disqualification from ownership of animals Disqualification from driving – general power Destruction orders and contingent destruction orders for dogs

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