Justin Ko successfully defends an Attorney General’s Reference in the Court of Appeal before Lord Justice Dingemans, Lady Justice Whipple and His Honour Judge Thackray KC.
Justin Ko successfully defends an Attorney General’s Reference in the Court of Appeal before Lord Justice Dingemans, Lady Justice Whipple and His Honour Judge Thackray KC.
The Court accepted Justin’s submissions, particularly that the sentencing Judge was best placed to assess the weight to be given to the Respondent’s mitigation and declined to intervene in the sentence imposed by the Crown Court.
It is of note that Justin appeared on behalf of the Respondent at the original sentencing hearing, at which the sentencing Judge reduced the Respondent’s sentence from the starting point of 60 months to 36 months’ imprisonment following Justin’s plea in mitigation.
Justin was instructed and assisted by Ali Hussain of AHS Law.
