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

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

Donald Trump has signed off on Labour’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US president’s decision is a ...

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

Guidance, which had been due to come into effect today, said judges should request pre-sentence reports, which can influence sentences, for criminals from ethnic, cultural or faith minorities.

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

A new report by the National Police Chiefs' Council called for "equality of policing outcomes" for different ethnic groups.

The Sentencing Council said the changes were ‘necessary and appropriate’ but that it would not implement them while a Bill ...

THE Sentencing Council has agreed to postpone their “two-tier” guidance after Sir Keir Starmer threatened to overrule them, ...

Keir Starmer made it clear his government would try to push through a law this week to overturn the guidance after claims it ...

Britain's government on Tuesday introduced legislation to block new sentencing guidelines taking into account a defendant's ...

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said Ms Mahmood had acted “too little, too late” on the new sentencing guidelines. The senior Tory, whose party was in Government when the guidelines ...