[2013] EWCA Crim 1144

When calculating a sentence using statutorily fixed variables, a judge could not lawfully pass a sentence less than the one produced by the arithmetic and the defendant was entitled to receive a sentence that was no longer than the one produced by the arithmetic.

CA (Crim Div) (Elias LJ, Edwards-Stuart J, Judge Ford QC (Recorder of Bristol))

13/06/2013