Sentencing
(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what plans he has to extend the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
This question was answered on 14th June 2018
Whilst in the vast majority of cases sentencing judges get it right, the ULS scheme is essential in ensuring that victims, family members and the public are able to request that sentences they think are unduly lenient can be reviewed.
The Government re-committed in our manifesto that we will extend the scope of the scheme. As a first step, an extension of the scheme to further terrorism offences came into effect last August.