The Justice Committee examines public understanding of sentencing
when it takes evidence from Victims’ Commissioner for London,
Claire Waxman, representatives of the Independent Commission into
the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners and academics.
The new inquiry aims to get a better understanding of public
awareness around how sentencing works, and how accessible
information on court sentences and the reasoning behind them is.
In this opening session, the Committee will examine what the
current level of understanding of sentencing is among victims and
the wider public. It will also look at how these views inform
sentencing policy and examine what more can be done to improve
awareness of how sentencing operates.
Witnesses
Tuesday 29 November, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
From 2.30pm-4:30pm
- Professor Mike Hough, Emeritus Professor, School of Law,
Birkbeck, University of London
- Professor Roberts, Executive Director,
Sentencing Academy; Professor of Criminology in the Centre for
Criminology, University of Oxford and former member of the
Sentencing Council of England and Wales (2009-2018)
- Claire Waxman OBE, Victims’ Commissioner for
London
- Bishop James Jones KBE, Chair, Independent Commission into
the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners
- Mark Day, Joint Secretary, Independent Commission into the
Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners
