Where no custodial sentence is imposed for dangerous driving causing death, a licence disqualification period above the statutory minimum is considerably more likely to be justified as serving an additional punitive function. Periods of licence disqualification in cases with custodial sentences cannot be mechanistically compared with those in non-custodial cases.
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