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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

The Lord Chancellor mentions the review of indeterminate sentences. My concern is that he will reach the wrong conclusion. When he conducts his review will he look at experience in Northern Ireland, where extended and indeterminate sentences have been available since 2008 but where, crucially, the assessment of danger is left in the hands of judges? It is a smaller system, but in the three years since its introduction there have been only 63 extended sentences and seven indeterminate sentences. Public safety has been combined with manageable numbers: will he look at that experience?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
530 c989 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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