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Home Affairs: Hurd minute to MT (“Lenient Sentences”) [MT preoccupied with “Attorney General’s right to refer an acquittal to the Court of Appeal on a point of law… so that guidance on sentencing in that kind of case could be issued”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1782 f36
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 6pp
Themes: Judiciary, Parliament, Law & order