Clause 58 — Interveners and costs

Part of Criminal Justice and Courts Bill – in the House of Commons at 2:39 pm on 17 June 2014.

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Photo of Philip Davies Philip Davies Conservative, Shipley 2:39, 17 June 2014

On the point made by my hon. and learned Friend Sir Edward Garnier, I should say that I did do some analysis of court sentences in city centres and more provincial courts. For offences such as this, sentences are likely to be much tougher in provincial courts than in city centre courts. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is probably because the offences are much less likely to come up in provincial courts and are therefore more shocking, and because judges in city centres become immune to the importance of the offences because they happen so often?