My hon. Friend will see that sometimes when the courts come to sentence someone who is brought before them for an offence committed many years previously, they are obliged to look at the sentencing guidelines that applied at the time of the offence. The case he is making is absolutely right: we cannot have retrospective cases such as this.
Recall of MPs Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Conor Burns
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 November 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Recall of MPs Bill.
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