Statistics provided by the Howard League for Penal Reform with a breakdown by ethnicity show that a Black/Black British man ...

The UK has taken significant steps towards ensuring equality in its judicial system with the recent passage of the Sentencing ...

Sentencing guidelines which risked differential treatment for different races and religions blocked as Sentencing Guidelines ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has slammed plans to allow “abortions up until the point of birth” - proposed by Labour colleagues - as “extreme” in advance of a divisive vote tonight.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood will call for reform to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as she warns foreign criminals should expect to be deported. Ms Mahmood will say the pact ...

Mahmood is believed to say:"If a foreign national commits a serious crime, they should expect to be removed from the country.” A senior minister said: “It can’t come soon enough.

Human rights law too often "protects those who break the rules", the justice secretary says. But the justice secretary says she rejects recommendations for earlier releases of the most serious ...

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood (Yui Mok/PA) Ms Mahmood told European ambassadors the UK was committed to the ECHR, but that was “not the same as complacency”.

In an apparent reference to the letter, Mahmood told the CoE's committee of ministers: 'Across Europe, public confidence in the rule of law is fraying. There is a growing perception – sometimes ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has agreed to allow some criminals, including violent and sexual offenders, to be released early for good behaviour. Police chiefs and MI5 have called for the ...

Shabana Mahmood told the Council of Europe in a speech in Strasbourg the ECHR ‘must evolve’ to respond to new realities. Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives in ...

Shabana Mahmood has said the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) must be reformed to restore public confidence as Keir Starmer’s government seeks to tackle the issue head-on. The justice ...