Lord Justice
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About Lord Justice
Jailing women for abortion 'unlikely to be just'
... Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert, previously said the case called for " compassion, not punishment"...
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... " It is not appropriate for us to comment on allegations which may be within the scope of the statutory inquiry and it is up to the statutory inquiry team, led by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, to determine which allegations are investigated...
Rikki Neave murderer James Watson loses appeal against conviction
... Three appeal judges - Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Morris and Judge Angela Morris - said Watson s appeal against his conviction had failed and " must accordingly be dismissed"...
Drivers face tougher sentences for killing pedestrians
... The chair of the sentencing council is Scotland s second most senior judge, the Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian...
Andrew Malkinson: Greater Manchester Police criticised over trial evidence
... Casting doubt In his judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde said the failure to disclose the photographs had " prevented the appellant from putting his case forward in its best light and strengthened the prosecution case against him"...
Andrew Malkinson's rape conviction quashed after 20-year fight
... " Overturning his conviction, Lord Justice Holroyd said Mr Malkinson could " leave the court free and no longer be subject to the conditions of licence"...
Carla Foster: Mother jailed over lockdown abortion to be released
... Dame Victoria Victoria Sharp, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert at the London court on Tuesday, called it " a very sad case"...
Government loses court battle over Boris Johnson's Covid WhatsApps
... Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Garnham said Baroness Hallett would return documents she found " obviously irrelevant"...
Jailing women for abortion 'unlikely to be just'
By Susie Rack & PA MediaBBC News, West Midlands
A senior court has said jailing women for abortion-related crimes was " unlikely" to be a " just outcome" after A Mother 's sentence was reduced.
In a 17-page ruling, The Court of Appeal explained why Carla Foster's.
The mother-of-three from Staffordshire had admitted illegally procuring abortion pills during lockdown.
The Appeal judges found her original sentence had been wrongly calculated.
Ms Foster procured abortion pills in The Post from The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) after indicating to staff she was Seven Weeks pregnant, when she was really between 32 and 34 weeks.
On 11 May 2020, after she took the pills, she went into labour and The Baby was born not breathing.
The mother was initially charged With Child destruction and pleaded Not Guilty , before admitting an alternative charge of administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion.
Dame Victoria Sharp , sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde and Mrs Justice Lambert, previously said the case called for " compassion, not punishment".
In Wednesday's ruling, the judges noted a similar case of A Woman convicted of administering poison with intent to procure a miscarriage where The Sentence had been lowered on appeal.
Dame Victoria said: " We consider that in cases of this nature, there will often be substantial personal mitigation to balance against the seriousness of The Charge ; and that an immediate custodial sentence in such cases is unlikely to provide a just outcome. "
The judges said, sitting at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court , had wrongly calculated the original sentence before factoring in Ms Foster's mitigation, and it was too high.
Dame Victoria added, while the 45-year-old had not been suffering from a serious mental illness at The Time , " there was evidence of an emotionally unstable personality and. . No Doubt that she suffered emotional turmoil throughout".
She continued: " Ms Foster made admissions at any early stage, and it is doubtful she would have been prosecuted had she not done so.
" In The Aftermath of the stillbirth, she was traumatised, and as The Judge put it, wracked by guilt and depressed. "
The Appeal court previously heard Ms Foster was denied contact with her children while in prison, one of whom is autistic.
Dame Victoria said: " By The Time of the hearing before us, it was obvious that custody had had a severely detrimental effect on Ms Foster and on her family. "
In his original sentencing, Mr Justice Pepperall described it as an emotive case made more " tragic" because she did not plead guilty earlier.
The case to the UK's abortion laws.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
