Penry-Davey joins fray over hard-line sentencing
BAR Council chair David Penry-Davey QC has joined senior judges in criticising Home Secretary Michael Howard’s mandatory sentencing plans. Penry-Davey said the plans – a flagship government policy – would cause injustice and would not work. “The evidence suggests that harsher and harsher sentences only have a minimal effect on crime,” he said. “The real […]