Magistrates' Courts: Sentencing
Commons · Question 9116 · Tabled 14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the unduly lenient sentence scheme to cases sentenced in the Magistrates’ Court.
Answer
Answered by Heidi Alexander, 21 Oct 2024
The Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme operates in respect of qualifying sentences passed in the Crown Court, where the offender has been convicted of: (a) an indictable only offence (such as murder, manslaughter and rape); and/or (b) certain either-way...