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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 July 2025
Debate
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]Contribution
I therefore want to be quite clear. I do not really care how it is done—whether by an expert committee, the Court of Appeal, or Mr Justice somebody-or-other sitting as a senior judge in a Crown Court, or by his honour or her honour Judge somebody else sitting in a Crown Court. What we must stop doing is going around this mulberry bush week after week while over 1,000 people—I think nearly 2,000 people—are still incarcerated for offences for which they should have received a determinate sentence may years ago, as a result of which they would be out by now.
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