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Dominic Casciani

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Home and Legal Correspondent at BBC

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  • Trans former judge to challenge Supreme Court's gender ruling

    2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Dominic Casciani

    Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European courtDominic CascianiAvalonVictoria McCloud, pictured in 2010 when she was sworn in as a Queen's Bench Master, stood down from High Court work last yearThe UK's only ever judge to publicly reveal they are transgender is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court's ground-breaking ruling on biological sex.

  • Tommy Robinson appeals for early prison release

    1 month ago | bbc.com | Dominic Casciani

    Tommy Robinson appeals for early prison releaseDominic CascianiReutersThe far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has urged the Court of Appeal to let him out of prison early because he says it is making him ill. In a highly unusual challenge to a sentence, Yaxley-Lennon's lawyers said his segregation from other prisoners at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes was damaging his mental health in ways the judge who sentenced him did not anticipate.

  • Former PMs and home secretaries may face inquiry over Manston asylum centre

    1 month ago | bbc.com | Dominic Casciani

    Former PMs and home secretaries may face asylum centre inquiryDominic CascianiPA MediaManston short-term centre for cross-Channel migrants Two former prime ministers and three former home secretaries may have to give evidence to an inquiry into serious allegations of chaos and unlawful activity at a centre used to hold cross-Channel migrants.

  • Prince Andrew and alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo prepare for more court disclosures

    1 month ago | bbc.com | Dominic Casciani

    Prince Andrew and alleged Chinese spy prepare for more court disclosures Dominic CascianiReutersMore documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday. Mr Yang has been banned from the UK on national security grounds after the home secretary concluded that he may have been trying to exert influence on the Duke of York.

  • Prince Andrew and alleged Chinese spy prepare for more court disclosures

    1 month ago | flipboard.com | Dominic Casciani

    Russian state media falls for April Fool's joke claiming Britain will build aircraft carrier called HMS Prince Andrew which can carry 'infinity' jetsBlundering Russian state media has been 'duped' into falling for an April Fool's joke that the Royal Navy is planning to build a third aircraft …

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Dominic Casciani
Dominic Casciani @BBCDomC
18 Sep 24

The law does not say this. It says that jail is the starting point *before the judge deducts for any mitigation and guilty plea*. But more importantly this was not a Crown Court sentence so Tom Tugendhat’s complaint cannot be acted on.

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Dominic Casciani @BBCDomC
15 May 24

RT @matt_dathan: This is simply wrong from Rishi Sunak. As @charlie_taylor6's report on HMP Lewes found, high-risk prisoners are being re…

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Dominic Casciani @BBCDomC
15 Jan 24

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