In a sense I am also grateful to the Sentencing Council. The decision to stand firm on its changes to sentencing guidelines ...

There is already a review of the sentencing system under way, led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke and ...

Government threatened to block rules that could have enabled criminals from minority backgrounds to avoid jail ...

The government will introduce legislation to Parliament this week to override independent guidance on how offenders from ...

The Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill will be introduced on Tuesday. However, it needs to be debated and ...

The members of the Sentencing Council have been pushed into a humiliating climbdown – but it may well be too late to save ...

It was not quite at the eleventh hour – but it wasn’t too far off. The Sentencing Council has tonight decided to delay the ...

The row broke out after the body in charge of sentencing set guidelines saying ethnicity and gender should be considered ...

The independent body that issues guidelines on sentencing is pushing ahead with changes which critics claim could lead to ...

THE humiliated quango boss who tried to impose two-tier sentencing must be dismissed, the Tories have demanded.  Lord Justice ...

A proposed sentencing guideline in England and Wales has Brits and social media users roiling over a policy they say would ...

Equality before the law is the cornerstone of the criminal justice system. Without the principle that every defendant, if ...