New sentencing guidelines will make the UK’s justice system more fair, not less – expert view
In echoes of last summer’s riots, the government is again being accused of enabling a “two-tier” justice system in the UK.
Are new sentencing rules creating two-tier justice?
Courts should know as much as possible about offenders before passing sentence, says distinguished lawyer Helena Kennedy. So ...
Stacey Dooley's Rape On Trial calls for societal change amid justice system failures for women
Stacey Dooley's documentary Rape on Trial is a call to action, as four women waive their right to life-long anonymity to ...
Sentencing row is another bid to inflame division: People of colour have lived with two-tier justice forever - it shouldn't exist for anyone
Official UK figures prove offenders from ethnic minorities still - consistently - get longer sentences than white offenders ...
Justice chiefs accused by MPs of failing to act quickly to tackle spiralling courts crisis
The Crown Court backlog has spiralled to more than 73,000 cases with the system mired in chronic delays and some trials being ...
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Labour warns plans for 'two-tier' justice system must be ditched 'as soon as possible'
New guidelines which could lead to the creation of a two-tier justice system must be abandoned “as soon as possible”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood declared. Ms Mahmood hinted that ...
Almost quarter of all people in UK know a woman who has been abused in the last year
Nearly a quarter of us know a woman or girl who has been a victim of domestic abuse over the past year, an exclusive survey ...
Convicting the innocent: how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue
Once someone is convicted their court records will be deleted or made unaffordable, their legal aid will be slashed and they ...
UK’s biggest class action lawsuit could expose the perils of litigation funding
This week lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the UK’s biggest ever class action lawsuit relating to a dam ...
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Justice Secretary calls for sentencing guideline to be reversed over ethnicity
The Sentencing Council published new principles for judges to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences on ...