Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she will review the role of the Sentencing Council following a "two-tier" justice ...

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

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The Sentencing Council confirmed tonight that these guidelines have been suspended - after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood ...

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

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

The Justice Secretary said ‘all must be equal before the law’ as the Government introduced a Bill following a row over ...

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

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 ...

Ministers have promised legislation to overturn the guidance and have not ruled out ultimately scrapping the Sentencing ...