[2008] EWHC 207 (Admin)

In the case of offenders sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment for offences committed after April 4, 2005, a Home Office policy of treating the first sentence pronounced by the court as the lead sentence for calculating release dates was unlawful. The Home Office ought to have treated the shortest sentence as being served first for the purpose of calculating release dates.

QBD (Admin) (Mitting J)

31/01/2008