Saturday, February 04, 2006

IT reads like a school maths test: if one judge takes four hours to sentence a criminal how much of a delay will it cuse? / The Times, 4 Feb 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2024039,00.html
Nicola Woolcock
"IT reads like a school maths test: if one judge takes four hours to sentence a criminal how much of a delay will it cause? For Judge Derek Inman, the problem was not theoretical and his own maths were not up to scratch. He described it as one of the most difficult exercises he had ever undertaken on the bench. The combination of sentencing guidelines had made it almost impossible to arrive at the truth."