Regina v Anderson; Attorney General’s Reference No 52 of 1996: CACD 10 Feb 1997

Application by the Attorney General for leave to appeal against unduly lenient sentence.
Held: A sentence of six years and more might be appropriate for offences in the domestic violence context, it having been argued in that case, unsuccessfully, that a domestic context in some way puts the case into a less serious category.

Judges:

Rose LJ

Citations:

[1997] EWCA Crim 394, [1997] 2 Cr App R(S) 230

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedAttorney General’s Reference No 87 of 2006, Regina v Daniel Peter Geddes CACD 24-Oct-2006
The Crown was given leave to appeal what it saw to be an unduly lenient sentence of the defendant following his becoming liable to be sentenced as a repeat offender iunder the 2003 Act. The main offence was that he had threatened his partner’s life . .
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Updated: 12 September 2022; Ref: scu.149849