Sentencing: Appeals
(asked on 20th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
This question was answered on 21st December 2017
The number of sentences considered by the Solicitor General and I has more than doubled since 2010 – from 342 to 837 requests in 2016. Last year we took 190 of these cases to the Court of Appeal for consideration. The Court of Appeal agreed to increase the sentences of 141 offenders.