Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2002] All ER (D) 354 (Jan)
Neutral Citation: [2002] EWCA Crim 67
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Pill LJ, Hallett and Davis JJ

Representation N W Carter, solicitor advocate (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 16 January 2002

Catchwords

Sentencing - Robbery - Plea of guilty - Discount to be given for plea of guilty - Whether sentence manifestly excessive.

The Case

Section152 of the did not oblige the court to reduce a sentence which it would otherwise have imposed in the light of a plea of guilty, rather it simply obliged the court to take such a plea into account.

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