Your weekly update on the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: record courts ...

Politics can be a steep learning curve. Case has filled Court 15 of the Rolls Building for more than four months. Cutting ...

Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment and reappointments of Parole Board Members. The Lord Chancellor has approved the ...

This year the European Convention on Human Rights and its Strasbourg court are 75 years old – the age at which British judges ...

Judges tell Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood they have done nothing wrong by introducing different rules for ethnic ...

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has officially corrected the House of Commons record for describing himself as a ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has written to the independent body to make clear her ‘displeasure’ and call for changes to ...

Guidance tells courts to consider pre-sentence report if offender is from an ethnic, cultural or faith minority community.

It is widely accepted that a pre-sentencing report results in a more lenient sentence. The Council places no requirements for ...

The Sentencing Council told Shabana Mahmood that if ministers ‘dictated’ guidance to courts it would undermine judicial ...

The Sentencing Council published new guidelines for courts to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences on ...

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