Chair Tana Adkin KC on proposals in #KingsSpeech “Stopping parole for the worst offenders” via
The World Tonight “I don’t think the answer is to for ministers to decide on sentencing [in each case] or release of prisoners – that’s the role of the independent judiciary and the parole board. And that fundamentally undermines the principles of separations of powers. We simply can’t have a Secretary of State, or minister, deciding on the release of a prisoner according to how popular that will be, or how unpopular that might be. It’s a matter for those who are trained and are dealing with this on a daily basis. It’s a bit like a minister deciding who will live, and who will die, during Covid….”
From 25m40s bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0
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