David Arthur Thomas

David A. Thomas was a British legal scholar, fee-paid judge, and leading authority on sentencing in England and Wales. Educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, he taught at the LSE before joining the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, where he became Reader and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He authored Principles of Sentencing, curated and maintained the loose-leaf reference Current Sentencing Practice and the annual Sentencing Referencer, developed the Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing), and edited the sentencing digest of the Criminal Law Review. His systematic collation of sentencing decisions and statutes established the analytical framework that shaped modern sentencing practice in England and Wales.

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