Practice and Procedure
R V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, EX PARTE DAVID JOHN PIERSON (1997)
PUBLISHED July 24, 1997The Home Secretary does not have power to increase the recommended period of a sentence once that sentence has been passed and communicated to the offender. Court of Appeal decision reversed.
HL (Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Steyn, Lord Hope of Craighead)
24/07/1997
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