Harry Taylor

1 day ago | msn.com | Richard Wheeler |Will Durrant |Harry Taylor |Claudia Savage

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1 day ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Richard Wheeler |Will Durrant |Harry Taylor |Claudia Savage

A law change to block potentially different sentencing approaches for offenders based on their race and religion has cleared its first Commons hurdle. The Government brought forward the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill after new guidelines for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before sentencing prompted claims of a “two-tier” justice system.

1 day ago | irishnews.com | Richard Wheeler |Will Durrant |Harry Taylor |Claudia Savage

ExpandJustice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said ‘addressing inequalities in the justice system is something this Government takes very seriously’ (Ben Whitley/PA) By Richard Wheeler, Will Durrant, Harry Taylor and Claudia Savage, PA Political StaffApril 22, 2025 at 10:55pm BSTA law change to block potentially different sentencing approaches for offenders based on their race and religion has cleared its first Commons hurdle.

1 day ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Rhiannon James |Harry Taylor |Claudia Savage |Will Durrant

Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson has pledged to protect women-only spaces and offer trans people the dignity they were “denied” by the Conservatives. The Supreme Court’s judgment on the definition of a woman brings “clarity and confidence for women”, Ms Phillipson told the Commons. During a statement on the ruling, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Labour of being “so desperate to jump on a bandwagon that they abandoned common sense” on gender and sex.

1 week ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Caitlin Doherty |Harry Taylor

Sir Keir Starmer has “hauled the Labour party back to the common sense position”, a Labour Party source said on Wednesday, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.