[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Please remember that the judiciary do have to work within guidelines.They do not make the rules and have to work within the parameters set however much they may like to impose heavier sentences.If they don't they may find themselves 'pushed' out of the job or the majority of their cases may be sent to the court of appeal.

Thats the whole thrust of the article that I posted.....they can't really be removed from their positions and they often don't apply as lengthy a sentence as they could....

Only the Queen can dismiss a High Court judge, and only then after a motion from both houses of parliament. More junior judges may be dismissed by the lord chancellor †” but only, it seems, if a judge has completely lost his or her marbles or misbehaved so badly that he or she can no longer credibly sit in a court of law......It is little known that anyone can complain about a bad sentence to the attorney-general or the solicitor-general. Not only do courts usually fail to publicise this right of appeal, there is also an absolute 28-day deadline for making one. All days count, including weekends and bank holidays. In practice, that means the parents of a child raped by a paedophile have only days to act after sentence is passed.......After Judge Gabriel Hutton fell asleep twice during a rape trial in 2001, causing it to be abandoned at immeasurable cost to the victim and £35,000 to the taxpayer, his punishment was a rebuke from the lord chancellor.