Is Lord Woolf’s Sentencing Guidelines Council undermining the intentions of Parliament?
21 September 2004There has been a lot of press interest in the proposal of the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) to give sentence discounts of up to one-third for pleading guilty to a crime. However, a second set of draft guidelines (released on the same day) proposes lighter sentences of up to one quarter merely because the 2003… [Read More]