Member

We on these Benches welcomed the passage of the amendment requiring the Crown Courts to provide sentencing remarks free of charge upon request. Victims of crime, and the families of victims of crime, should not be required to pay to access sentencing remarks directed to those who have offended against them, particularly when those remarks are central to the submission of an unduly lenient sentence application. I strongly urge the Government in the other place to recognise the importance of this reform and to support the amendment.