Tim Kiely responds to the Gauke Sentencing Review

Writing in Solicitors Journal, Tim Kiely provides his thoughts on the proposed reforms put forward in the latest Independent Sentencing Review. Examining the proposals to overhaul the justice system he comments:

“One excellent way of doing this would be to work comprehensively to reduce the social pressures that correlate strongly with crime and anti-social behaviour, addressing housing instability, poor mental health provision and the consequences of criminalising drug use and looking again at our long-standing national tendency to treat criminalising problematic behaviour as the best (or the first) means of securing the public good.”

Read full piece here: [Solicitors Journal]

Tim manages a busy Crime practice and is instructed in a variety of criminal matters including Serious Violence, Drugs Offences and cases involving domestic violence: [Tim Kiely Profile]