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Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Prosecution Appeals”) [“Lawyers see this as being the first occasion in history that the prosecution has been involved in sentencing. If you do not want a constitutional wrangle but wish to do something bearing in mind the 1983 Conference pledge, there is an alternative [to pushing legislation through Commons]”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1782 f52
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Judiciary, Parliament, Conservatism, Law & order