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Sentencing Reforms 2024

New sentencing pressures and reforms in 2024 that influence how judges exercise discretion in cases of online communications offences.

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Feb 4, 2026

How many of the 12,000 communications‑offence arrests in 2023 led to formal charges and convictions?

Official reporting assembled by journalists and parliamentarians shows roughly people were arrested under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1...

Jan 7, 2026

How many UK convictions for online posts resulted in prison sentences in 2024?

Available reporting indicates that prosecutions for harmful online communications were a fraction of the social-media policing headlines in 2024, and that a relatively small number of those prosecutio...