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4 months ago

Robert Jenrick will pledge to axe the Sentencing Council to stamp out 'two-tier justice' in Britain.
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick will set out plans they say would put ministers in charge of sentencing policy.

10 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Shabana Mahmood's Tory shadow, Robert Jenrick, has had her in all sorts of difficulties over the Sentencing Council's 'two-tier justice' gambit.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick tells MPs there was a 'very real prospect' that offenders were handled under the discredited Sentencing Council rules this morning
In a last-minute climbdown the Sentencing Council agreed to postpone the introduction of guidance which critics said would discriminate against white men.

11 months ago

PM said ministers would consider next steps over guidance for judges in England and Wales aimed at tackling bias

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The Sentencing Council’s refusal to agree to the gover…

In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the chairman of the Sentencing Council told the Cabinet minister he had refused her request to alter the guidance.
The Sentencing Council - already embroiled in a political storm over its 'two-tier justice' measures - plans to slash the maximum jail terms for a range of immigration crimes
In updated principles published by the Sentencing Council last week, judges were told to consider a defendant's ethnicity when deciding whether to send them to jail.
The Sentencing Council has so far refused to back down over its proposal to give special treatment to ethnic minorities and transgender people who are convicted of crimes.

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