The Revised Home Detention Curfew Scheme - New Rules Examined - Webinar

Introduction

This webinar, presented by Colin Beaumont, will deal with the updated guidance on the Home Detention Curfew Scheme (updated June 2024) and the statutory amendments to the Scheme made by Statutory Instrument 2024 No. 755.

This webinar provides you with a good opportunity to familiarise yourselves with the amended updated Scheme in order that you can have a meaningful chat with your client about his or her possible earliest release date, subject to an electronically monitored curfew, under the Scheme.

This webinar is a distillation of the ‘essence’ of the 91 page document published in June 2024 and will give you the current legal position as to who will and who will not qualify and what it all means for those who do qualify.

What You Will Learn

The following are 12 examples of the issues that will be considered:

• The maximum permissible release period under the Scheme - 180 days
• The abolition of the ‘4 year rule’ - Section 68 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
• Statutory Instrument 2024 No. 755 which altered the Scheme with effect from 17 June 2024
• Those categories of offenders who are ineligible to join the Scheme under Statute
• Those offenders who are presumed unsuitable unless they meet the Exceptional Circumstances test
• The ‘28 day rule’
• Examples of how it all works in practice - a 3-month sentence, a 4-month sentence, a 4-year sentence, and a 6-year sentence
• Those offenders recalled for being in breach of their curfew condition
• Those offenders returned to custody under Section 40 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991
• Those offenders returned to custody under Section 116 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000
• The Scheme as it applies to adult offenders 18+
• The Scheme as it applies to young offenders aged 17 or below