Here is a list of confirmed council tax rises for 2025/26 for all top-tier local authorities in England. The list has been ...

Courts should know as much as possible about offenders before passing sentence, says distinguished lawyer Helena Kennedy. So ...

The so-called “two tier” nature of the UK’s justice system could get worse ... he complains about was drafted in 2024, and the last government was consulted, and when they were consulted ...

The row was triggered after the Sentencing Council, which advises judges and magistrates on the complexities of prison terms ...

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

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she will write to the council to "register my displeasure" and recommend reversing the change, after the Tories accused her of overseeing "two-tier justice".

LONDON - The UK opposition leader on March ... “There will never be a two-tier sentencing approach under my watch or under this Labour Government,” she added. She later said on X she would ...

New guidance for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their punishment could be overruled by a change in ...

The UK opposition leader on Thursday backed the justice minister over scrapping new guidance for judges requiring them to ...