Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Sally Dickinson: I have to say that that has been our policy since referral orders were first introduced and we have not changed our view in all that time. Magistrates, again, are looking for the discretion and flexibility to use the appropriate sentence and we cannot understand the objections to that policy.