The Sentencing Council will look again at arguments against its new guidelines after critics said they would create a ...

The Shadow Justice Secretary will on Friday demand MPs block the Sentencing Council's plans which are "vandalising the ...

Serco’s performance fitting electronic tags ‘not good enough’ - Serco has repeatedly come under fire for delays in fitting ...

Proposed reforms issued by the independent Sentencing Council were labelled biased by the Conservatives.

New guidance on sentencing offenders from ethnic monitories and other backgrounds is set to start in April.

The new guidance for judges to consider a criminal's ethnicity before deciding their punishment prompted Shabana Mahmood to write to the independent body to make clear her 'displeasure' and call ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been accused of having a 'knee-jerk' reaction to new sentencing guidelines - after she ...

Justice Secretary to meet Sentencing Council over ‘two tier’ guidance row - The Sentencing Council told Shabana Mahmood that ...

Global insecurity means the Government must go 'further and faster to reform the state, to deliver a strong, agile and active ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood wants the Parole Board to reconsider the release of the convicted triple killer.

The Sentencing Council told Shabana Mahmood that if ministers ‘dictated’ guidance to courts it would undermine judicial independence. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to hold talks with ...