Read the full judgment text of HCCC 38/2012 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 October 2012.
38. What then are exceptional circumstances? It would be unwise to suggest examples but we suggest that an exceptional case will tend to be the case where the reasons for a non-custodial sentence, when explained, will readily be understood by the public to be sufficiently unusual to warrant a departure from the tough norm; in such a case general deterrence is not undermined. ...in many cases general deterrence is realistically the true and only deterrent objective and it is an objective which wi