Zohran Kwame Mamdani, born in Uganda to an Indian father and Indian-American mother Mira Nair, embodies a unique ...

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

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

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

But the review, published Monday, found that ethnicity data was “shied away from” and not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators in crimes involving ”grooming gangs" — those involving ...

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 ...

Shabana Mahmood has agreed with the view of her opposition counterpart Robert Jenrick that the council’s inclusion in the guideline of specific cohorts for whom it would be normally considered ...

When they were set out last month, the new principles from the Sentencing Council immediately sparked accusations of "two-tier justice", including from the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood herself.

The justice minister Shabana Mahmood told the chairman of the Sentencing Council at a meeting on Monday that the government planned to introduce the legislation to overturn the plan, the body said.

The guidelines have enraged Number 10 and could lead to the powers of the Sentencing Council being curtailed in more sweeping legislation later this year after Ms Mahmood ordered a review into the ...

It comes after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday to block the “damaging” guidance, which could have led to criminals receiving different ...