QUENTIN LETTS: Once Robert Jenrick locks on to you, it's like seeing a Sidewinder missile chaser a Tiger Moth

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 23:50 UTC

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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.

'Two-tier justice' farce: Judges only told sentencing guidelines have been postponed two hours AFTER hearings began, MPs told

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 14:15 UTC

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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

Climbdown over two-tier justice as sentencing rule change is put on ice amid ministers' fight to block the policy

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 00:20 UTC

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In a last-minute climbdown the Sentencing Council agreed to postpone the introduction of guidance which critics said would discriminate against white men.

Starmer ‘disappointed’ as Sentencing Council rejects calls to review ‘two-tier’ justice rules

found 2025 › Mar › 28 (Fri) @ 16:37 UTC

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

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Labour's Shabana Mahmood 'humiliated' as Sentencing Council REJECTS her demand to scrap new guidelines that sparked 'two-tier justice' row

found 2025 › Mar › 28 (Fri) @ 16:37 UTC

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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.

Warning illegal immigrants could remain in the UK indefinitely under weaker punishments plan that risks 'blowing hole' in border controls

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 21:03 UTC

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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

Calls grow for Labour to abolish Sentencing Council amid 'two-tier' justice row as top minister warns quangos to 'deliver for people'

found 2025 › Mar › 13 (Thu) @ 19:14 UTC

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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.

Sentencing chiefs face growing pressure to scrap 'two-tier' justice plan - amid fears policy may be discriminatory against white men

found 2025 › Mar › 13 (Thu) @ 06:44 UTC

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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.

The REAL inspiration for Labour's 'two-tier' justice system revealed as fury grows over 'softer sentences' for minority criminals

found 2025 › Mar › 07 (Fri) @ 18:51 UTC

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A 2017 review of the justice system by the Foreign Secretary was used by the Sentencing Council when it drew up new guidelines for courts to follow when considering whether to jail people.

'Two-tier' justice move towards minorities getting softer sentences 'came off the back of a report by David Lammy'

found 2025 › Mar › 07 (Fri) @ 06:52 UTC

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The Sentencing Council on Wednesday published new guidelines for courts to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences, including whether to suspend jail time.