Recommendation 18

The shift away from appeal by way of rehearing to review will require magistrates to provide more detailed reasons for their decisions and legal advisers to provide robust written advice to withstand judicial scrutiny on appeal. As Sir Brian Leveson himself observed in his 2015 Review, if reasons provided by the bench were subject to greater scrutiny on appeal, “more time would be taken fashioning and deploying them: to that extent, the restriction could be counter-productive”. (Conclusion, Paragraph 86)