[2004] EWCA Crim 1762

When sentencing an offender for a minimum term under a mandatory life imprisonment for murder where the offence was committed after May 2002, the judge should refer to the May 2002 Practice Direction and the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Schs. 21 and 22 only, and not the Lord Chief Justice's letter of December 2002.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Judge LJ, Holland J, Astill J, Gross J)

08/07/2004