Good Behaviour Reduces Life Term

Life Sentence - Minimum Period Review
R v Caines; R v Roberts [2006] EWCA Crim 2915
CA
23 November 2006
Daily Law Notes Summary
In carrying out a review under Sch 22 of the Criminal Justice Act
2003 of the minimum period to be served by an offender sentenced
to a mandatory life term, the judge was entitled to take into
account the offender’s exceptional progress in prison for the
purpose of resetting the minimum term.

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