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Thursday, 08 September 2016
The Court of Appeal today increased the sentence of Evesham child sex offender Daniel Mills after an intervention by Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC...
Tuesday, 06 September 2016
Individuals providing certain evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry can do so without fear of prosecution...
Monday, 05 September 2016
The Attorney General on the threat faced today from economic crime and how the UK Government is addressing it...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
More than 100 offenders had their prison sentences lengthened following referrals by the Attorney and Solicitor General to the Court of Appeal under t...
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
All Bona Vacantia’s IT systems will be unavailable on Thursday 11 August...
Friday, 05 August 2016
The Solicitor General will encourage victims to report hate crimes during a visit to Crown Prosecution Service offices in Newcastle....
Thursday, 21 July 2016
Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP's speech at the Lord Chancellor's swearing in ceremony...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
A speech by Solicitor General Robert Buckland to the Public Policy Exchange Symposium on effectively tackling Hate Crime. ...
Thursday, 09 June 2016
Two jurors found guilty of contempt of court were sentenced to suspended prison terms after a hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice today....
Friday, 13 May 2016
A violent offender who carried out a number of brutish assaults in Essex town centres sentenced to spend an extra 4 years in jail...
Friday, 06 May 2016
A man who imprisoned and raped a woman in Doncaster will have to twice as long in prison after the Court of Appeal increased his prison sentence to 8 ...
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
A violent prisoner in HMP Preston who threw boiling water in the face of a nurse today had his sentence increased to 11 years in jail ...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
A violent offender who carried two brutal attacks using bottles and a pair of scissors as weapons was today sentenced to life imprisonment. ...
Friday, 15 April 2016
A semi-professional footballer who was caught tweeting about playing football 24 hours after making a dishonest insurance claim for whiplash today adm...
Thursday, 07 April 2016
A robber from Leeds who violently attacked and strangled his elderly uncle today had his jail term more than doubled to 9 years’ imprisonment after a ...
Wednesday, 09 March 2016
16 Birmingham gang members who supplied guns and ammunition to criminals across the country will be spending over 50 more years in prison following a ...
Thursday, 18 February 2016
The Attorneys General and other ministerial representatives from 5 countries recently met in Washington DC to discuss continued successful cooperation...
Tuesday, 09 February 2016
The Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP spoke at University College London's Law Faculty on his role as a guardian of the public interest...
Tuesday, 09 February 2016
David Green CB QC, Director of the Serious Fraud Office, to have his contract extended by 2 years...
Friday, 05 February 2016
A man who carried out a stabbing attack outside the Lido club in Margate last year was today sentenced to an increased prison term by the Court of App...
Thursday, 04 February 2016
A Burnley man who raped a woman during a night out had his 3 year prison sentence increased to 5 and a half years by the Court of Appeal....
Tuesday, 02 February 2016
The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentence of Callum Stroomer to life in prison with a minimum of 13 years for the vicious at...
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
The Court of Appeal today sentenced child sex offender Matthew Ian Bell to 3 years in prison after overturning his original suspended sentence. ...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
A man convicted of historical rape charges was today sentenced to serve 3 years in prison after the Court of Appeal overturned his original two year s...
Friday, 22 January 2016
Sarah Sands today had her prison sentence for the killing of convicted paedophile Michael Pleasted increased to seven and a half years’ imprisonment b...
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Convicted drug smuggler James Hill was today sentenced to 11 years in prison after the Court of Appeal overturned his original sentence....
Friday, 15 January 2016
The Court of Appeal has today doubled the prison sentence of James Richardson to a total of 12 years’ imprisonment with an extension period of 5 years...
Friday, 15 January 2016
Ruman Ali, the driver of a car that caused the death of Coventry student Kieran Dhaliwal in October 2013, was today sentenced to an increased prison t...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Brighton burglar Ryan Lewis was today sentenced to an increased prison term after a referral to the Court of Appeal by Solicitor General Robert Buckla...
Wednesday, 06 January 2016
Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP today announced the launch of a pilot programme to allow a wider range of prosecutors to conduct appeals into Und...