Practice and Procedure

Sentencing

PUBLISHED September 20, 2011
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Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Conspiracy to supply Class A drug Attorney General's Reference (No 40 of 2011) R v Williams: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mr Justice Tugendhat, Mr Justice Griffith Williams, judgment delivered extempore): 2 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, quashed a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment suspended for two years for conspiracy to supply a Class A drug and imposed one of three-and-a-half years' imprisonment on the basis that the original sentence had been unduly lenient. read more

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