— (1) The Court of Appeal quashed an IPP sentence and replaced it with a s37/41 restricted hospital order. (2) During his imprisonment the appellant had been made subject to three separate sentences for assaults, ordered to run consecutively to his release from the IPP: (a) in relation to the two sentences from the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal allowed appeals and quashed the orders that the terms were to run consecutively; (b) in relation to the sentence imposed by the magistrates' court, the power under s142 Magistrates' Court Act 1980 to vary sentence was not available, so the Court of Appeal reconstituted itself for an oral appeal hearing under s108(1) MCA 1980 to achieve the same end.
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