Lawcast 192: John Cooper QC on the sentencing of rioters and looters – Charon QC

Posted August 19th, 2011 in podcasts, proportionality, sentencing, violent disorder by sally

“Today I am talking to John Cooper QC, a practising barrister at 25 Bedford Row, about the controversy which now rages in the press in relation to the sentences being handed down to rioters and looters. The issue of proportion, parity and comparison with sentences given for so called ‘white collar crime’ by MPs, peers and bankers is examined in detail.”

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Charon QC, 18th August 2011

Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com

“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.