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Friday, 18 December 2015
The Court of Appeal today imposed a sentence of 3 and a half years' imprisonment on Marie McCarthy for indecent assault of a 15 year old ...
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Fourteen offenders linked to the infamous Burger Bar Boys gang in Birmingham may have their prison sentences increased after a referral today by Solic...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Editors and publishers are reminded of their responsibilities under the Act and should take legal advice to ensure they fully comply ...
Thursday, 10 December 2015
The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentences of Richard Copeland, Glenn Milburn and Ian Froom for a spate of burglaries in the...
Thursday, 10 December 2015
The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentences of Paul Oliver and Thomas Bailey to 19 years’ imprisonment with an extended four ...
Wednesday, 09 December 2015
The Court of Appeal has today increased the custodial sentence of Bahmani Ahmadi to 6 years and 6 months’ imprisonment....
Thursday, 03 December 2015
The Court of Appeal today increased the unduly lenient sentence handed to rapist Martin Tom....
Tuesday, 01 December 2015
The Court of Appeal today imposed an extended sentence of imprisonment against Swansea armed robber Robert Quinn after finding him to be a dangerous o...
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The Chancellor has published the results of the spending review, including details of the Law Officers' Departments...
Thursday, 05 November 2015
The Attorney General has appointed Mark Heywood QC as First Senior Treasury Counsel (Criminal) to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court. ...
Wednesday, 04 November 2015
The Court of Appeal today quashed the 6 year sentence given to Exeter rapist Lawrence Fernandes and increased it to 12 years. ...
Monday, 02 November 2015
The Attorney General address to the opening of National Pro Bono Week at the Law Society ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
An article from Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP on the need to address the growing problem of disability hate crime in the UK....
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The Court of Appeal has increased a 10 year sentence to 15 years for a care worker who sexually attacked three elderly residents in her care...
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC MP, has today appeared for the UK Government before the European Court of Human Rights in a case which looks at...
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The Court of Appeal finds two rape sentences unduly lenient and increases them by a total of 16 years. ...
Thursday, 15 October 2015
The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC MP's key note address to the Government Legal Service International Law Conference...
Monday, 05 October 2015
Solicitor General, Robert Buckland, last week joined the Attorneys General of 11 of the UK’s Overseas Territories Annual Conference Anguilla...
Friday, 25 September 2015
An advisory to editors, publishers and social media users to avoid indentifying complainants in sexual abuse cases...
Thursday, 24 September 2015
The Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP has attended a hate crime co-ordinators meeting at the Police College in Ryton...
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
New inquests are to be held into the deaths of a civilian and 8 IRA men who died on 8 May 1987 at Loughgall, the Advocate General for Northern Ireland...
Friday, 11 September 2015
Solicitor General’s keynote address to the 33rd Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime ...
Thursday, 09 July 2015
Individuals providing certain evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse can do so without fear of prosecution...
Wednesday, 01 July 2015
Appeal Court increases the 10 year rape sentence of John Dennis to 20 years after ruling the original sentence unduly lenient. ...
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Reasons behind decision not to grant consent to prosecute 17-year-old ...
Monday, 16 March 2015
Kevin McGinty has been appointed as the new Chief Inspector of HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate...
Monday, 16 March 2015
The Solicitor General asks people to take care when commenting about the Hillsborough inquest ...
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
To celebrate National Apprenticeships Week 2015, Robert Buckland QC MP visits Addleshaw Goddard law firm to meet law students...
Friday, 06 March 2015
Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP visits Burlington Danes Academy to see the Lawyers in Schools project...
Thursday, 05 March 2015
Deputy Legal Secretary of the Attorney General's Office, Kevin McGinty, has been named as preferred candidate for Chief Inspector of the CPS...