# The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009, Article 52: Review of adjudicators’s punishment

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Where a punishment is imposed by an adjudicator under rule 51, the detainee may, within fourteen days of his receiving a copy of the adjudicator’s note of the hearing submit to the commandant in writing a request for a review together with his grounds for the request.
(2) The commandant shall promptly forward the request and grounds to the Judge Advocate General, who shall appoint a reviewer.
(3) The reviewer shall, save in exceptional circumstances, begin the review within four days of his appointment by the Judge Advocate General.
(4) The review shall—
(a) be conducted on the papers alone;
(b) only be of the punishment imposed and shall not be a review of the finding under rule 51 that the charge has been proved.
(5) On completion of the review, if it appears to the reviewer that the punishment imposed was manifestly unreasonable he may—
(a) reduce the number of any additional days of service detention awarded;
(b) for whatever punishment has been imposed by the adjudicator, substitute another punishment which is, in his opinion, less severe; or
(c) quash the punishment entirely.
(6) A detainee requesting a review shall serve any additional days of service detention awarded under rule 51 unless and until they are reduced.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/52 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-52
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