Ed Fast at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I make that point because I believe one of the strong arguments that have been made in favour of leaving discretion to impose conditional sentences with the judges was that we need to leave enough room at the bottom end of the sentencing structure to be able to take into account all of the different circumstances that present themselves in court. I would argue that the same reasoning should apply to the maximum sentence at the upper end of sentencing. There needs to be--