[2007] EWHC 3108 (Admin)

An independent request by the probation service that an offender provide reasons and evidence explaining his failure to attend a community service appointment within seven days of that failure was not a provision that fell within the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s.220. However, where a request in those terms was ancillary to another provision and therefore provided, in effect, that if the information could not be given in advance of the failure to attend an appointment, it could be given within seven days of that failure, then the provision did fall within that section.

DC (Thomas LJ, Gross J)

29/11/2007