Sentencing
(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
This question was answered on 27th October 2016
The number of sentences considered by my office has increased by over 108% since 2010 from 342 to 713 requests in 2015.
Of those, 136 were referred by my office to the Court of Appeal as potentially unduly lenient, with the Court agreeing to increase the original sentence for 102 offenders.