R v A

Subject Matter

CRIME — Sentence — Appeal against sentence — Court of Appeal proposing to quash determinate sentence of imprisonment and substitute special custodial sentence — Whether offender “more severely dealt with on appeal” — Whether consideration to be given to date on which offender becoming eligible for release or date on which offender becoming entitled to automatic release — Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (c 19), s 11(3) — Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c 44), s 236A (as inserted by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c 2), s 6, Sch 1, para 2)

[2020] EWCA Crim 948; [2020] 1 WLR 5014; [2020] WLR(D) 435, CA