The Labour justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has forced the Sentencing Council to withdraw its new sentencing guidelines ...

Good morning. The Sentencing Council has suspended its plans to introduce guidelines to judges that would have discriminated ...

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 fresh row has erupted over 'two-tier justice' after it emerged that police officers have been told ethnic minorities can be ...

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

The Sentencing Council for England and Wales paused planned guidelines that could have altered sentencing based on ethnicity, ...

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

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

The guidelines advise that magistrates and judges get a pre-sentence report - giving further details of an offender's ...

The Sentencing Council is expected to suspend guidelines which advise judges to consider the lives of offenders from ethnic ...