Trump was already a convicted felon, and had three ongoing criminal cases against him, when he was elected president for the second time in November 2024.

Controversial sentencing guidelines that were due to come into force on Tuesday have been delayed after a political backlash. The Sentencing Council, the independent body that sets out sentencing ...

The Sentencing Council has rejected calls from the justice secretary to change guidance that recommends judges consider a criminal's ethnicity before deciding their punishment. The body ...

FOLLOWING an extensive reviewing and reporting phase lasting about 12 months, the Sentencing Advisory Council has published 12 recommendations for sentencing regarding occupational health and safety ...

The government and the independent body in charge of sentencing are locked in a row over new guidelines that say characteristics like ethnicity and gender should be considered ahead of sentencing.

A planned “two-tier” sentencing system which provoked fury has been scrapped at the last minute after the Government threatened to abolish the quango advocating it. The Sentencing Council is ...

New rules on sentencing criminals from ethnic minorities have been abandoned following a weeks-long standoff between senior judges and the government. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary ...

The Sentencing Council has delayed the implementation of new sentencing guidelines that could have led to criminals getting different sentences depending on their age, sex and ethnicity.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood had promised to introduce legislation to block the changes (Ben Whitley/PA) Plans for new sentencing guidelines for offenders from minorities have been delayed ...