The Sentencing Council has delayed the implementation of new sentencing guidelines that could have led to criminals getting ...

The Australian's Europe Correspondent Sophie Elsworth examined the UK's controversial plans for new sentencing guidelines, ...

London (AFP) – Britain's government on Tuesday introduced legislation to block new sentencing guidelines taking into ... In October 2022, a report by a top UK lawyer and the University of ...

Plans for new sentencing guidelines for offenders from minorities have been delayed after the Government announced draft legislation to block the changes following a row over claims of a “two ...

Controversial sentencing guidelines that were due to come into force on Tuesday have been delayed after a political backlash. The Sentencing Council, the independent body that sets out sentencing ...

A bill to legally prevent new sentencing guidelines on how ethnic minority criminals should be punished will be introduced today, the justice secretary said. Shabana Mahmood told MPs in the House ...

complicating hopes of moving quickly to change the sentencing guidelines. A Government source said: “The UK’s first Muslim woman Lord Chancellor has fought the blob and won, asserting the ...

The Sentencing Council for England and Wales, which provides guidelines to judges on punishments, suspended on Monday plans ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Plans for new sentencing guidelines for offenders from minorities have been delayed after the Government announced draft legislation to ...