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Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (lenient sentencing) [“action we should take following the Lords’ rejection of the clause in the Prosecution of Offences Bill which gave the Attorney General a power to refer apparently over-lenient sentences to the Court of Appeal”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1782 f57
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Judiciary, Parliament, Conservatism, Law & order