Robert's Postbag
Robert receives hundreds of letters from prisoners asking for advice. Some have received unlawful sentences. Each one is answered and a selection of answers are published in Inside Time, the prisoner's newspaper.
The prisoners whose letters are published consent to the replies being published. However, no details which would identify the prisoner are given.
Only letters sent via a solicitor can be answered. Letters sent direct will be returned. Serving prisoners should send their letters to Inside Time, who will send it to a solicitor.
For the chronological list, click here.
By Subject
Appeals
Minor errors in papers March 2011 Q4
Out of time March 2011 Q3
Archbold
Errors in chapter on suspended sentences December 2010 Q1
Arson November 2011 Q3
Bar Pro Bono Unit September 2011 Q5
Burglary
Commercial: Guidelines February 2011 Q3, October 2011 Q2
Domestic: Guidelines October 2010 Q1
Cases not dealt with together June 2011 Q3
Complaint against
Barrister June 2011 Q3
Probation April 2011 Note
Conspiracy to
Rob November 2011 Q1
Supply drugs February 2012 Q2
Contempt of court
Photographing courtrooms November 2010 Q1
Extended sentences The different orders November 2010 Q4
Guideline, Drugs definitive January 2012 part one, January 2012 part two, February 2012 Q2
Guidelines, sentencing in excess of March 2012 Q3
Guilty pleas
Judge fails to mention January 2011 Q2
Life sentence December 2010 Q2
Judge: Asking for a different one September 2011 Q3
Letters to victims March 2012 Q1
Licence recall June 2011 Q2, August 2011 Q1
Life imprisonment: whole life February 2012 Q1
Life sentence: Guilty plea March 2011 Q1
Looters September 2011 Q1, October 2011 Q1
Magistrates' Court sentencing powers December 2011 Q1
Manslaughter November 2011 Q2
Minimum sentences: When do they apply? February 2011 Q1, March 2011 Q2
Mobile phone, Solicitor calling client in prison on September 2011 Q6
Money laundering November 2011 Q1
Mother May 2011 Q1
Murder, Attempt April 2011 Q1, November 2011 Q3
Murder: whole life February 2012 Q1
Offences Against the Person Act 1861 s 18
Boiling water December 2010 Q2
Relationship offences Guidelines December 2010 Q2
Knives November 2010 Q2
Phone hacking August 2011 Q4
Photographing court rooms November 2010 Q1
Plea, Discount for December 2011 Q2
Police corruption August 2011 Q4
Poppy project November 2010 Q3
Possession of alcohol in prison May 2011 Q3
Presence: Right to be present for your hearing September 2011 Q2
Prison
Disciplinary proceedings and sentence May 2011 Q3
Mobile phone, Solicitor calling prisoner on September 2011 Q6
Privileged defendants February 2011 Q2
Probation Service: Problems with reports January 2011 Q1
Representing yourself September 2011 Q4
Robbery, Street August 2011 Q2
Sentencing remarks, Failure to mention guilty plea January 2011 Q2
Sexual Offences Prevention Orders May 2011 Q2, June 2011 Q1, July 2011 Q2,
Why most SOPOs are defective: August 2011 Note
Statutory rape March 2012 Q4
Solicitor calling prisoner on mobile phone September 2011 Q6
Street robbery August 2011 Q2
Supply
Heroin and crack February 2012 Q2
Street supply February 2012 Q2
Terrorism July 2011 Q1
Theft: breach of trust March 2012 Q3
Three strikes rule: When does it apply? February 2011 Q1, March 2011 Q2
Trafficked victims November 2010 Q3, December 2010 Note
Whole life tariff February 2012 Q1
