This blog provides a summary of a Ministry of Justice pilot to increase the delivery of quality pre-sentence reports across 15 magistrates’ courts in England and Wales.
On 16th September 2020, the government published A Smarter Approach to Sentencing. This blog looks at the provision for community sentences set out in the white paper.
In this blog, Lauren Nickolls looks at the impact the sentencing white paper is likely to have on people in the criminal justice system from black and Muslim communities.
In this blog we look at the impact of sentence inflation and consider the implications of the government white paper’s new proposals that will mean more people are in prison for even longer.
On 16th September 2020, the government published A Smarter Approach to Sentencing. This white paper sets out a number of proposals for changes to sentencing in England and Wales.
