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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sir Keir Starmer said he had "no other option" but to pass a law overruling the body, but a government source said it would ...

The government is set for a showdown with the judiciary this week over controversial sentencing guidelines due to come into ...

In one of the cases, a white man was convicted of brutally murdering a Latino man. One witness for the prosecution testified ...

When you do this, it’s the most incredible thing, as a lawyer, to see the person that you represented, that you believed in, ...

WASHINGTON, DC - A new policy report highlights various systemic injustices in the U.S. criminal legal system, and urges lawmakers to adopt significant ...