Overview

• Round-ups from Poole, Weymouth, Southampton, Brighton, High Wycombe and Oxford capture a fresh slate of magistrates’ decisions in mid‑August 2025.
• Motoring offences dominated, with disqualifications ranging from 12 months to five years, fines and points for drink‑ and drug‑driving, speeding and failing to identify drivers.
• Magistrates handed immediate custody for serious breaches, including two months for repeated domestic‑violence protection order violations and three months two weeks for failing to comply with a community order.
• A five‑year sexual harm prevention order was imposed in Dorset after a defendant admitted possessing an extreme pornographic image involving an animal, alongside an 18‑month community order with unpaid work.
• Many cases drew community orders with rehabilitation activity days and unpaid work, plus routine forfeiture and destruction of drugs and requirements to pay compensation, costs and victim surcharges.