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PDF 79 Jul 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Professor John Gunn (restoration of the death penalty) [Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Norman Hogg MP (UN resolution on capital punishment) [“a matter for Parliament”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (Debate on Home Affairs) [capital punishment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs letter to James Prior (the capital punishment debate) [“The execution of Irish people under British law for politically inspired offences would almost certainly create a situation worse than anything our two Governments have experienced for the past thirteen years”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: President of the European Parliament letter to MT (the restoration of capital punishment) [“would be an extraordinary and terrible decision”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Howe PS letter to No.10 (the capital punishment debate & the European Parliament) [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Ian Percival MP letter to MT (capital punishment debate) [MT request for copy of his speech] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (review of sentencing policy) [“in the light of the capital punishment debate and subsequent events, we now need to take firm action”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [proposals for sentencing policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Appeal against Lenient Sentences”) [“idea is likely to provoke rather than appease public opinion”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to Whitelaw (“Appeal against Lenient Sentences”) [MT “worried that… this proposal… could put at risk the Government’s plans for an independent system of prosecution”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Howe) [power to refer lenient sentences to the Court of Appeal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (life sentences and violent crime) [MT endorses proposals for tough sentences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“The Prison Adjudication System”) [review of system for dealing with disciplinary offences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“The Prison Adjudication System”) [“view with considerable concern any possibility that the criminal courts which are already stretched to breaking point should have further burdens placed upon them”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Lord Hailsham (review of the prison adjudication system) [terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (Attorney General’s right to refer cases to the Court of Appeal for an opinion as to sentence) [proposed legislation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to MT (“Criminal Justice: A Working Paper”) [“wide-ranging review”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Attorney General letter to Brittan (lenient sentencing) [”scheme to provide for a Crown right to refer… to the Court of Appeal“] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Brittan (“Excessively Lenient Sentences”) [“proposed power for the prosecution to refer to the Court of Appeal”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Advocate minute to MT (time limit on criminal proceedings) [recent High Court ruling affecting cases in Scotland] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Tougher Regimes in Detention Centres”) [follow-up to 1979 Manifesto commitment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“could make a useful contribution to reducing excessive delay”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“I continue to have doubts about the value of statutory time-limits”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (introducing statutory time limits on the bringing of criminal proceedings) [feedback from Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [need to balance addressing court delay with risk of public backlash if detainees released on technicality] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [“The enactment of Home Office legislation would leave Northern Ireland unhappily exposed, as the only jurisdiction in the United Kingdom unable to conform”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Peter Rees letter to Brittan (“Time Limits in Criminal Proceedings”) [cost implications of judicial reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Time Limits on Criminal Proceedings”) [Prosecution of Offences Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Prosecution of Offences Bill: Meeting with the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary, 3 April 1985”) [“This battle in Parliament might win the power to obtain sentencing guidelines or might be lost. It would be better to achieve the same by a safer route”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Hailsham, Biffen, Havers, Wakeham, Lord Denham) [“Lenient Sentences”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Limited Sentences”) [Debate on the Prosecution of Offences Bill: Lords resistance to enhancing Attorney General’s powers on appealing lenient sentences] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Sentencing and the Criminal Justice Bill: H Committee, 4 February”) [“problem of lenient sentencing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Criminal Justice Bill”) [main features of the White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Lenient Sentencing”) [MT queries power to refer a point of law to Court of Appeal following acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Lenient Sentencing”) [minimum sentencing for robbery and rape] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Lenient Sentences”) [amended proposal following opposition in Lords] [declassified 2014]
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