I have some knowledge about how the faint hope provisions work. As you say, they don't work for anybody convicted of offences from 2011 onward, but it used to be that the success rate on faint hope applications was a little over 75%. For people who got a reduction of parole eligibility from a jury, about 90% of them would eventually get earlier parole. Now, that probably doesn't—
On February 23rd, 2015. See this statement in context.