{"id":1497,"date":"2010-03-28T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:07:39","slug":"new-powers-to-the-public-on-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"New powers to the public on sentencing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1500\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Telegraph-on-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Telegraph-on-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"26\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Telegraph on line<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Telegraph reports that under controversial moves likely to be announced within days, a new  website    will allow people to draw to the attention of Baroness Scotland, the    Attorney General, cases where they believe punishments issued in  courts have    not been harsh enough.<\/p>\n<p>She will be under a new obligation to take local campaigns into account  before    weighing up whether to apply to have a sentence increased because it  is unduly lenient.<\/p>\n<p>Report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/7530700\/Public-to-have-bigger-say-in-criminal-sentencing.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph on line The Telegraph reports that under controversial moves likely to be announced within days, a new website will allow people to draw to the attention of Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, cases where they believe punishments issued in courts have not been harsh enough. She will be under a new obligation to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}