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

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

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

‘Iniquitous’ | Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over ...

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

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

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

The Sentencing Council changed guidance to judges and magistrates to advise they get a pre-sentence report for criminals from ...

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

The lord chancellor has repeated her promise to 'legislate as necessary' following the Sentencing Council's rejection of her ...

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