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Caught in
the system
Despite the abolition of indeterminate sentences, the new
rules cannot be applied retrospectively. Philip Rule considers
how the Court of Appeal is responding

he notorious indeterminate
sentence of imprisonment for public
protection (IPP) has been abolished.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment



Act that abolish the IPP were brought into
force. The new regime instead creates a
mandatory life sentence for a second listed

would otherwise exceed a ten-year

determinate sentence of imprisonment, and
a separate determinate sentence called the

replaces the IPP.

The new extended determinate sentence



sentence for public protection (EPP)



not been sentenced.


EDS, which consists of a custodial term

and an extended licence period. The risk
threshold to be applied remains the same
as under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA)




remains the same. For adults, one of
two further conditions must also apply:
either the court must consider that the

a determinate sentence of at least four

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these conditions are made out, the court has

impose an extended period for which the


and (9)). Therefore the EDS comprises
an appropriate custodial term, and an
extension period of licence (section




Unless the appropriate custodial term is



to release a person from an EDS at the
conclusion of the requisite custodial term,

custodial term has been completed, without

any reference to the parole board. In other
cases the parole board will be able to
direct release before the conclusion of the
appropriate custodial term. Any prisoner
who has not been released by the end of the
appropriate custodial term will be released

There is accordingly no power to



The Court of Appeal

is already alive to
the unfairness that
may arise for some
prisoners




prisoners to satisfy the parole board that
their detention is no longer necessary and


question as to how the courts will approach

an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment,

release through the parole board process.

The number of such prisoners is not


granted an oral hearing remains low, at

Qualifying for release

The signs are that the Court of Appeal

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