Archive for September, 2004
Is Lord Woolf’s Sentencing Guidelines Council undermining the intentions of Parliament?
Posted by David Green in Crime on 21/09/2004
There has been a lot of press interest in the proposal of the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) to give sentence discounts of up to one-third for pleading guilty to a crime. However, a second set of draft guidelines (released on the same day) proposes lighter sentences of up to one quarter merely because the 2003 Criminal Justice Act increased the period of supervision after early release.
