Court of Appeal quashes immediate custodial sentence after sentencing judge had suggested it might be suspended if defendant pleaded guilty
August 25, 2026
In Westlake v Crown Prosecution Service [2016] the Divisional Court quashed the defendant’s conviction for common assault where the Magistrates had applied an ‘objective’ as opposed to ‘subjective’ test to the question of recklessness.
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