Read the full judgment text of FACC 000009/2006 on BabelCite. This FACC judgment was delivered on 22 March 2007.
1. It is the policy of the courts to take into account in mitigation of sentence useful assistance the defendant had given to the authorities and usually to give an appropriate reduction from the sentence which the defendant would otherwise have received. The assistance is most often given by the defendant after his arrest for the offence for which he is being sentenced (“ post-arrest assistance ”). There may be occasions where the assistance is given by the defendant before his arrest (“ pre-
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