On 25 January 2023 we heard two applications by HM Solicitor General to refer sentences imposed for causing death by dangerous driving as unduly lenient pursuant to Section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. The applications related to two different defendants sentenced in different courts on different days. The cases were unrelated save that both required consideration of the effect of Section 86(2) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 which increased the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving from 14 years' imprisonment to life imprisonment. The increase in the maximum sentence applies to any offence committed after 28 June 2022.
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