Court of Appeal: Sentencing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were referred to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme between 2019 to 2025.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
From 1 January 2019 to 21 February 2025, 781 sentences were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Law Officers under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
The number of referrals by Law Officers to the Court of Appeal each year since 2019 is as follows:
2019 | 93 |
2020 | 97 |
2021 | 155 |
2022 | 139 |
2023 | 139 |
2024 | 146 |
2025 | 12 to date |
This data is available publicly using the Outcome of ULS Referrals Data Tool - Outcome of unduly lenient sentence referrals - GOV.UK.
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