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PREM19/1782
Home Affairs (Capital punishment: sentencing policy) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 253

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Date Value Title
79 Jul 18 We Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Professor John Gunn (restoration of the death penalty) [Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
80 Mar 10 Mo Major Home Affairs: MT letter to Norman Hogg MP (UN resolution on capital punishment) [“a matter for Parliament”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 22 We Major Home Affairs: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (Debate on Home Affairs) [capital punishment] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 8 Fr Major 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]
83 Jul 11 Mo Major Home Affairs: President of the European Parliament letter to MT (the restoration of capital punishment) [“would be an extraordinary and terrible decision”] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 12 Tu Major Home Affairs: Howe PS letter to No.10 (the capital punishment debate & the European Parliament) [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Home Affairs: Ian Percival MP letter to MT (capital punishment debate) [MT request for copy of his speech] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major 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]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan) [proposals for sentencing policy] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 16 Fr Major 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]
83 Sep 23 Fr Major 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]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Howe) [power to refer lenient sentences to the Court of Appeal] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Home Affairs: Brittan minute to MT (life sentences and violent crime) [MT endorses proposals for tough sentences] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“The Prison Adjudication System”) [review of system for dealing with disciplinary offences] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major 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]
83 Oct 31 Mo Major Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Lord Hailsham (review of the prison adjudication system) [terms of reference] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 18 We Major 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]
84 May 4 Fr Major Home Affairs: Brittan letter to MT (“Criminal Justice: A Working Paper”) [“wide-ranging review”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 5 Tu Major 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]
84 Jun 19 Tu Major Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Brittan (“Excessively Lenient Sentences”) [“proposed power for the prosecution to refer to the Court of Appeal”] [declassified 2014]