[2007] EWCA Crim 979

Where an offender was liable to a required minimum sentence by virtue of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.110 or s.111, and the judge considered that the appropriate starting point for sentence after a trial was greater than the required minimum sentence, the judge was entitled to allow a full discount for a guilty plea from that starting point so long as the eventual sentence imposed was not less than 80 per cent of the relevant required minimum sentence.

CA (Crim Div) (Thomas LJ, Cox J, Judge Wide QC)

22/02/2007