The Sentencing Guidelines Committee held meetings during the week of 5 January 2026 when a delegation from the Foreign, ...

The Sentencing Council has today (30 March) published for consultation new proposed sentencing guidelines for perverting the course of justice contrary to common law and revised guidelines for witness ...

A Sentencing Guidelines Committee has been established, and the first phase will be to work on sentencing guidelines for offences such as drug offences, causing death by driving offences, bladed ...

The justice secretary will be given the power to veto changes to sentencing guidelines proposed by an independent body, following a "two-tier justice" row. The government has announced a new legal ...

The Government has been accused of “running scared of rather nasty right-wingers” over plans to block new sentencing guidelines. New guidance from the independent Sentencing Council would have ...

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