Lord Justice Treacy, chairman of the Sentencing Council, delivered a keynote speech at the Criminal Law Review Conference on Thursday 3 December. The main themes in the speech are on how the Sentencing Council:

• contributes to justice reform and efficiency;
• helps those working on complex offences;
• ensures the consideration of victims within the sentencing process; and
• seeks to continually improve by reviewing existing guidelines.

The full text of the speech can be found here.