Sentencing: Appeals

(asked on 14th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, whether there are plans to review the nature and type of offences that are capable of referral to the Court of Appeal on the grounds of leniency of sentencing.


Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 10th October 2016

The Government has committed to extending the scope of the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and is carefully considering its approach.

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