Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2006] All ER (D) 216 (Feb)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Scott Baker LJ, Owen J and the Common Serjeant

Representation Andrew Lees (instructed by Henry Hyams, Leeds) for the offender.
  Zoe Johnson (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Attorney General.
Judgment Dates: 16 February 2006

Catchwords

Sentence - Deferred sentence - Review of sentence by Court of Appeal - Whether deferral of sentence can be referred to court as unduly lenient - , s 36.

The Case

Although the Attorney General had the jurisdiction to refer the deferral of a sentence to the court as unduly lenient, pursuant to s36 of the the occasions on which such a referral would be appropriate would be few and far between.

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