as my brother in law has been given 6 weeks remand in barlinnie? thanks
2006-11-28 00:29:19 · 11 answers · asked by PROD'N'PROUD 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
It's commonly used as shorthand for "on custodial remand". People are remanded in custody if they are awaiting trial or sentence and the Court feels that they cannot grant bail. Reasons have to be given for refusing bail, but the most common ones would be:
- The person is a danger to the general public
- The person remains a danger to the victim in the case
- The person does not have a suitable bail address to offer (so that the Court and police couldn't monitor them)
- They believe that the person will abscond and fail to return to Court.
When the next Court hearing comes up as it will for your brother-in-law in 6 weeks' time, the defendant is "produced" at the hearing, which means that they are taken from the prison in a secure van with prison officer escorts and taken to Court. When the sentence is passed, they will either be released (if a custodial sentence is not passed, or if they are already judged to have completed the sentence because of time already served in prison on remand) or taken back to prison to complete their custodial sentence.
The Prisoner's Families' Helpline can provide you with more information. http://www.prisonersfamilieshelpline.org.uk/php/bin/readarticle.php?articlecode=9279
2006-11-28 07:12:12 · answer #1 · answered by purplepadma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are arrested, you are taken to the police station. There are a few outcomes to this.
1. No Charge - You are released a free person.
2. Bailed - You will need to either come back to the police station at a pre determined time and date, or attend court on a time and date
3. Remanded. The crime is serious and/or you are believed to be an escape risk, so you are kept in custody until the court date. The court can decide to keep you in custody until a verdict is reached.
2006-11-30 08:56:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
REMAND - When an appellate court sends an appealed case back to the trial court for further action, the case is said to be remanded. This usually happens if the trial judge has made an error which requires a new trial or hearing. For example, assume that a trial court refuses to allow a party to introduce certain evidence (believing it to be inadmissible under the hearsay rule). If the appellate court decides that the evidence should have been admitted and that the exclusion of the evidence was prejudicial to the party offering it, the appellate court would likely remand the case for new trial and order the evidence introduced.
To send back or recommit. When a prisoner is brought before a judge on a habeas corpus for the purpose of obtaining his liberty, the judge hears the case and either discharges him or not; when there is cause for his detention, he remands him.
When an appellate court sends a case back to the same court out of which it came for the purpose of having some action on it there.
2006-11-28 00:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by pyokerakawonga 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are awaiting trial, you can be remanded in custody (prison), or remanded on bail.
Be remanded on bail:
To be allowed to leave the law court after you have been accused of committing a crime to go to a particular place, usually your home, to wait until the trial begins, after paying a sum of money to the court which will not be given back if you do not appear at the trial.
2006-11-28 00:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by Polo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You've been arrested, you been charged and you're usually on bail awaiting your court hearing. You can also be kept on remand in prison if your crime warrants it.
But basically its the bit between when you've been charged for a crime and where you're waiting for your sentance for it.
2006-11-28 00:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Cynical_Si 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it just means he is not aloud bail...so the state is granted to hold him until a verdict is reached....in some places the remand time is taken off the final sentence
2006-11-28 00:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by Laura Ashley 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. to send back, remit, or consign again.
2. Law. a. to send back (a case) to a lower court from which it was appealed, with instructions as to what further proceedings should be had.
b. (of a court or magistrate) to send back (a prisoner or accused person) into custody, as to await further proceedings.
2006-11-28 00:30:30 · answer #7 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means held in custody pending trial.
2006-11-28 00:32:23 · answer #8 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Waiting in prison for the police to find you guilty.
2006-11-28 12:41:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To send back, as in sending a prisoner back to jail to serve out the rest of his time for parole violations.
2006-11-28 01:54:03 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋