Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000014/1981 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an application by the Attorney General for review of sentence. The Respondent was charged in the District Court inter alia on two charges of robbery. He was convicted on those charges and sentenced to be detained in a detention centre. It is submitted on behalf of the Attorney General that these sentences were wrong in principle. The basis of the argument is that these were particularly serious offences of a type which normally requires the imposition of immediate terms of imprisonmen