§ 100. Sir C. Osborneasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation generally to increase five-fold maximum monetary fines, in view of the fall in the value of money, and to lay a duty upon the lower courts to impose maximum fines more readily.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe Criminal Justice Bill proposes increases in a large number of maximum fines to take account of changes in the value of money and other factors. It must remain for the courts to decide what fine to impose in the particular circumtances of an individual case.