r under the law or practice of the issuing Member State, aiming at a non-execution of such penalty or measure..." 5. The United Kingdom 142. R. v. Lichniak and R. v. Pyrah [2003) 1 AC 903, the House of Lords considered the compatibility of a mandatory life sentence as imposed in England and Wales with

and life imprisonment could be exaggerated and, to this end, quoted with approval the dicta of Lord Justice Laws in Wellington and Lord Bingham in Lichniak (at paragraphs 65 and 142 above). 153. In State v. Philibert [2007] SCJ 274, the Supreme Court of Mauritius held that a mandatory sentence of 45 ye