[2002] EWCA Crim 2060

It was often the case that a candidate for a drug treatment and testing order had committed a significant number of offences to fund his drug habit. In such cases a sentencing judge must be careful not to give a disproportionate weight to the scale of offending and thereby diminish the usefulness of such an order both to the offender and to the community.

CA (Crim Div) (Rix LJ, Field J, Judge Crowther QC)

30/07/2002