§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will refer to the Law Reform Commission for consideration the practice whereby the Court of Criminal Appeal penalises appellants by increasing without relation to the actual offence the sentence for no other reason than that the appeal was brought.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsSection 6 of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1966, which came into force on 1st October, amended the law relating to the reckoning as part of a sentence of the time during which an appellant is in custody pending the determination of his appeal. I do not consider that a further review would now be justified.