Victoria Sharp
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 68 |
| Date of birth | February 8,1956 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Parents | Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke |
| Education | University of Bristol |
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| ID | 1051917 |
Victoria Sharp Life story
Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, DBE, PC is the President of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales.
Jailing women for abortion 'unlikely to be just'
... Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert, previously said the case called for " compassion, not punishment"...
Carla Foster: Mother jailed over lockdown abortion to be released
... Dame Victoria Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert at the London court on Tuesday, called it " a very sad case"...
High Court blocks release of criminal defendants in trial delays
... Dame Victoria Sharp, president of the King s Bench Division of the High Court, was ruling on cases involving defendants at Bristol and Manchester Crown Courts whose cases had been delayed by the strike...
Judges unlawfully releasing defendants, court hears
... Dame Victoria Sharp, one of England s most senior judges, said the High Court would rule in the coming days...
Shoreham air crash inquests: Coroner denied use of cockpit footage
... Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Mr Justice Saini, ruled there " is neither credible evidence nor, even adopting her approach, a credible suggestion that the AAIB investigations were incomplete, flawed or deficient on the issue of cognitive impairment"...
Harry Miller: Legal victory after alleged 'transphobic tweets'
... Dame Victoria Sharp, one of England s most senior judges, said: " The net for non-crime hate speech is an exceptionally wide one which is designed to capture speech which is perceived to be motivated by hostility...
Meghan aide 'regretted' not giving evidence in privacy case
... The Court of Appeal judges - Sir Geoffrey Vos, Dame Victoria Sharp and Lord Justice Bean - said they will give their ruling at a later date...
Brexit: the Scottish judges rule-Parliament, the suspension is unlawful
... the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, and President of the Queen s Bench Division, lady Victoria Sharp, said their conclusion was based on the established and conventional reasons...
Jailing women for abortion 'unlikely to be just'
By Susie Rack & PA MediaBBC News, West Midlands
A senior court has said jailing women for abortion-related crimes was " unlikely" to be a " just outcome" after A Mother 's sentence was reduced.
In a 17-page ruling, The Court of Appeal explained why Carla Foster's.
The mother-of-three from Staffordshire had admitted illegally procuring abortion pills during lockdown.
The Appeal judges found her original sentence had been wrongly calculated.
Ms Foster procured abortion pills in The Post from The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) after indicating to staff she was Seven Weeks pregnant, when she was really between 32 and 34 weeks.
On 11 May 2020, after she took the pills, she went into labour and The Baby was born not breathing.
The mother was initially charged With Child destruction and pleaded Not Guilty , before admitting an alternative charge of administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion.
Dame Victoria Sharp , sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert, previously said the case called for " compassion, not punishment".
In Wednesday's ruling, the judges noted a similar case of A Woman convicted of administering poison with intent to procure a miscarriage where The Sentence had been lowered on appeal.
Dame Victoria said: " We consider that in cases of this nature, there will often be substantial personal mitigation to balance against the seriousness of The Charge ; and that an immediate custodial sentence in such cases is unlikely to provide a just outcome. "
The judges said, sitting at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court , had wrongly calculated the original sentence before factoring in Ms Foster's mitigation, and it was too high.
Dame Victoria added, while the 45-year-old had not been suffering from a serious mental illness at The Time , " there was evidence of an emotionally unstable personality and. . No Doubt that she suffered emotional turmoil throughout".
She continued: " Ms Foster made admissions at any early stage, and it is doubtful she would have been prosecuted had she not done so.
" In The Aftermath of the stillbirth, she was traumatised, and as The Judge put it, wracked by guilt and depressed. "
The Appeal court previously heard Ms Foster was denied contact with her children while in prison, one of whom is autistic.
Dame Victoria said: " By The Time of the hearing before us, it was obvious that custody had had a severely detrimental effect on Ms Foster and on her family. "
In his original sentencing, Mr Justice Pepperall described it as an emotive case made more " tragic" because she did not plead guilty earlier.
The case to the UK's abortion laws.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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