Justice Secretary calls for sentencing guideline on ethnicity to be reversed Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said she will be writing to the Sentencing Council to ‘register my displeasure’.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has promised "a moment of reckoning" for those who turned a blind eye to the the scandal of grooming gangs. The scale of abuse was set out by Prof Alexis Jay's ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has written to the independent body to make clear her ‘displeasure’ and call for changes to be reconsidered. The Sentencing Council has warned against ...

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'.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been accused of having a 'knee-jerk' reaction to new sentencing guidelines - after she agreed with Tory Robert Jenrick's 'Trump-style' reply ...

Kemi Badenoch called for the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to change the law, and said the Conservatives “will back her”, after Ms Mahmood said she would “register my displeasure” to ...

The row comes after Shabana Mahmood asked the body to reconsider its guidance for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their punishment. 1.

The Sentencing Council has rejected the Justice Secretary's demand to scrap new guidelines at the centre of a 'two-tier' row. In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the chairman of the Sentencing Council ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to hold talks with the Sentencing Council after it rejected her demand to change guidance to judges following claims of ‘two-tier’ justice (Ben Whitley/PA) ...

Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, replied: “As somebody from an ethnic minority background, I do not stand for any differential treatment before the law for anyone.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been accused of having a 'knee-jerk' reaction to new sentencing guidelines - after she agreed with Tory Robert Jenrick's 'Trump-style' reply ...

Justice Secretary calls for sentencing guideline on ethnicity to be reversed Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said she will be writing to the Sentencing Council to ‘register my displeasure’.