English to Romanian Law/Patents Law (general) Sentencing

Step 1 is about the sentencing court looking at the offence and its surrounding circumstances and deciding how far the defendant can be blamed for the offence. The range of blameworthiness (“culpability”) is from ‘very high’, which involves a deliberate breach or flagrant disregard for the law, to ‘low’ when significant efforts were made to address the risk, there was no warning of the risk and the failings were minor and isolated.
The next stage of Step 1 is to consider the seriousness of any harm/risk of harm and the likelihood of that harm occurring. This is “scored” on a “seriousness of harm risked” – A, B or C and; “likelihood of risk occurring” – high, medium and low to reach a “harm category” from 1 to 4.