The reform UK Deputy Leader has proposed a new law that will allow the members of the public to say that when they feel that criminal sentences are either very rigid or very generous.
MP Richard Tice said that he wants a system where 500 members of the public said that they disagree with a sentence in a petition to the Review Commission of Criminal Affairs (CCRC), it would have to decide whether the court has to mention the decision.
He said that it will provide another protection on sentences and this will give more confidence to the public in the justice system.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice (Moj) said that they were not actively considering the proposals of the Tice.
The Tice told the MPs that “even great, experienced, intelligent judges can find wrong things”, but that “perhaps the public would have more confidence in a lively democracy in our justice system, if it was a system of triple check safety for sentences, without being able to the basic decision without any case.”
He said that it would give people more confidence in “fairness and comparative suit of sentences within our system”.
A MoJ spokesman refused to formally comment, but said that under the current laws, a defendant may refer to his sentence in the appeal of appeal if they believe that their sentence is rigid or wrong.
The spokesman said that anyone can refer to a case that they consider uncontrolled for the Attorney General.
Tice proposed in bill Awakening of the case of Lucy KonoliAnd referred to him in his speech at the House of Commons.
In the case of Konoli, he said that a person sending a post on social media could be punished “who could be much higher than the punishment given to a shopkeeper, a robber, a Magagar, a drug dealer”.
Konoli was put in jail for 31 months in October after provoking racial hatred. He posted on X calling for “Mas Nirvasan Nau”, “all … set fire to hotels [housing asylum seekers]… for all I care”.
His message was re -prepared 940 times and viewed 310,000 times before he removed it three and a half hours later.
In May, he lost an appeal against his sentence.
Tice is It was earlier said that the corni should be freed And that his imprisonment was an example of “two -level justice”.
The proposal of CCRC, The Body Tice will assess any sentence that a public petition has flagged off criticism after a series of misunderstandings.
The body of independent, arms-and-local appears in a possible abortion of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
CCRC’s new interim president Dame Vera Baird Casey told the BBC earlier this month that the commission was “unable to learn from its mistakes” and she wanted to “root out” the culture.
Following an independent report, in January, his predecessor left that CCRC had fallen the case of Andrew Malkinson wrong and failed to complete the basic work that could doubt his trust.
In 2004, Malkinson was incorrectly imprisoned for rape. He was freed in 2023 when a judge declared his sentence insecure when the new DNA evidence on the victim’s clothes was found to match another person.
Following a parliamentary petition made by former-referred MP Rupert Lowe, MPs will debate the use of jail for non-violent crimes arising from social media positions, which pass 100,000 signature boundaries.
