Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2004] All ER (D) 167 (Dec)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Cresswell and Simon JJ

Representation Samuel Green (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 10 December 2004

Catchwords

Sentencing - Sentencing procedure - Duty to remit young offender to youth court for sentence - Decision not to remit offender neither wrong in law nor wrong in principle - (Sentencing) Act 2000, s 8.

The Case

In the circumstance of the instant case, it had been neither wrong in law nor wrong in principle for the judge to have declined to remit the defendant to the youth court after he had pleaded guilty to affray.

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