Case No. EWCA-Crim-2366

(see Kallakis 2013 EWCA Crim 709) who was involved in the UK’s largest ever mortgage fraud (over £740 million advanced) required a more severe punishment than the offenders here?29.It is for Parliament to decide upon maximum and minimum level of sentences, and Miss Montgomery claimed there is a real possibility of courts encroaching on their territory. Where Parliament has set maximum sentences for particular conduct, it is not for the courts and the executive to decide that those sentences are not enough, and that the statutory limits should be evaded. This is precisely the objectionable course of action that Lord Bingham identified in Rimmington.