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• Sack Sentencing Council chief over two-tier justice rules, demand MPs - The Telegraph

  01-04-2025 20:05 via news.google.com
  Sack Sentencing Council chief over two-tier justice rules, demand MPs  The Telegraph
  
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• Kemi Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence but admits she hasn’t watched it – as it happened

  01-04-2025 19:00
  
  Conservative party leader says she believes show ‘is based on real story’, a claim described as wholly untrue by writer and co-creator of seriesRichard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, is giving evidence to the Treasury committee. There is a live feed here.Hughes started by telling the committee that he wrote to the chancellor earlier this year to say that, when his five-year term ends later this year, he would like to have a second term in office.We are of cour
  
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• Dr Ian Bownes obituary

  01-04-2025 18:46
  Psychiatrist tasked with assessing the mental state of Irish republican prisoners in the Maze during the 1980sWhen Irish republicans in the Maze prison began organising hunger strikes in 1980 to secure political status for inmates, one of the first experts called in by the Northern Ireland Prison Service was the psychiatrist Dr Ian Bownes.Though he was then only a trainee, it was his role to assess the mental state of those threatening to starve themselves to death – checking whether they
  
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• Justice Secretary ‘considering all her options’ on Sentencing Council – minister - London Evening Standard

  01-04-2025 17:58 via news.google.com
  Justice Secretary ‘considering all her options’ on Sentencing Council – minister  London Evening Standard
  
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• Lawyers attack ‘dangerous’ decision to halt Sentencing Council guidelines

  01-04-2025 17:39
  
  Society of Black Lawyers calls decision to block pre-sentencing reports ‘deliberate step backwards’UK politics live – latest updatesShabana Mahmood’s intervention to halt new guidelines on sentencing is “dangerous” and a “deliberate step backwards”, according to senior legal figures and prison campaigners.The Society of Black Lawyers said guidelines from the Sentencing Council, which were suspended after an intervention by the justice secretary, we
  
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• Step to legally prevent new 'two-tier' sentencing guidelines begins today, justice secretary says - Sky News

  01-04-2025 17:30 via news.google.com
  Step to legally prevent new 'two-tier' sentencing guidelines begins today, justice secretary says  Sky News
  
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• 'Two-tier justice' farce: Judges only told sentencing guidelines have been postponed two hours AFTER hearings - Daily Mail

  01-04-2025 15:45 via news.google.com
  'Two-tier justice' farce: Judges only told sentencing guidelines have been postponed two hours AFTER hearings  Daily Mail
  
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• Limited Protection: Israel’s High Court of Justice Rejection of Gaza Humanitarian Aid Petition - Just Security

  01-04-2025 15:34 via news.google.com
  Limited Protection: Israel’s High Court of Justice Rejection of Gaza Humanitarian Aid Petition  Just Security
  
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• Labour's populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right | Janey Starling

  01-04-2025 14:14
  
  Forcing the abandonment of new commonsense, evidence-based guidelines is a new low for a party that once prided itself on justice reformA progressive sentencing guideline that was due to come into force today has been shot down in the crossfire of the culture wars. This is devastating news for people whose lives would have been changed by the guideline, such as pregnant women and mothers.The Sentencing Council’s updated “imposition of community and custodial sentences” guidelin
  
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• Fresh 'two-tier justice' row erupts as police chiefs criticised for saying ethnic minorities can be treated differently - lbc.co.uk

  01-04-2025 09:33 via news.google.com
  Fresh 'two-tier justice' row erupts as police chiefs criticised for saying ethnic minorities can be treated differently  lbc.co.uk
  
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• French justice minister urges prompt appeal hearing for Le Pen – as it happened - The Guardian

  01-04-2025 09:22 via news.google.com
  French justice minister urges prompt appeal hearing for Le Pen – as it happened  The Guardian
  
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• Two tier justice cannot be countenanced - The Telegraph

  01-04-2025 06:59 via news.google.com
  Two tier justice cannot be countenanced  The Telegraph
  
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• Pro-Palestinian British Cornell student says he will leave US citing fear of detention

  01-04-2025 06:25
  
  Momodou Taal, who had been asked to surrender by immigration officials, says he has ‘lost faith’ that favourable court ruling would protect himA Cornell University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests and was asked to surrender by United States immigration officials has said he is leaving the US, citing fear of detention and threats to his personal safety.Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana studies and dual citizen of the UK and the Gambia, has participated
  
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• Young people in contact with Queensland justice system 4.2 times more likely to die early, new research shows - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  01-04-2025 03:47 via news.google.com
  Young people in contact with Queensland justice system 4.2 times more likely to die early, new research shows  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  
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• Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann assured justice will be delivered: Colonel’s family - Hindustan Times

  01-04-2025 03:40 via news.google.com
  Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann assured justice will be delivered: Colonel’s family  Hindustan Times
  
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• Rider Justice Sponsors Iron Goddess Motorcycle Show at Arizona Bike Week - markets.businessinsider.com

  01-04-2025 02:47 via news.google.com
  Rider Justice Sponsors Iron Goddess Motorcycle Show at Arizona Bike Week  markets.businessinsider.com
  
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• Freshmen wish list: Jim Justice - Axios

  01-04-2025 02:22 via news.google.com
  Freshmen wish list: Jim Justice  Axios
  
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• Jim Justice's warnings on DOGE and Medicaid - Axios

  01-04-2025 02:07 via news.google.com
  Jim Justice's warnings on DOGE and Medicaid  Axios
  
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• Director, Indigenous Law and Justice Hub Job at University of Melbourne in Parkville, United States - The Conversation Job Board

  01-04-2025 01:51 via news.google.com
  Director, Indigenous Law and Justice Hub Job at University of Melbourne in Parkville, United States  The Conversation Job Board
  
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• Susan Owens, former WA Supreme Court justice, dies at 75 - The Seattle Times

  01-04-2025 01:31 via news.google.com
  Susan Owens, former WA Supreme Court justice, dies at 75  The Seattle Times
  
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• Climbdown over two-tier justice as sentencing rule change is put on ice amid ministers' fight to block the pol - Daily Mail

  01-04-2025 01:09 via news.google.com
  Climbdown over two-tier justice as sentencing rule change is put on ice amid ministers' fight to block the pol  Daily Mail
  
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• Two-tier justice row erupts as police are told to treat black and white suspects differently with chief consta - Daily Mail

  01-04-2025 00:42 via news.google.com
  Two-tier justice row erupts as police are told to treat black and white suspects differently with chief consta  Daily Mail
  
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• Two-tier justice row erupts as police are told to treat black and white suspects differently and that 'racial - Daily Mail

  01-04-2025 00:42 via news.google.com
  Two-tier justice row erupts as police are told to treat black and white suspects differently and that 'racial  Daily Mail
  
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• White House abruptly fires career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move - AP News

  01-04-2025 00:16 via news.google.com
  White House abruptly fires career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move  AP News
  
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