The road to two-tier justice
The furore about sentencing reforms agreeed by all parties erodes public trust in the law
Author: YUAN YI ZHU
The furore about sentencing reforms agreeed by all parties erodes public trust in the law
A Westminster wag once remarked that British political scandals are different because they so often consist of nothing more than the public noticing what is already in the public domain. Outsourcing your wardrobe needs to Lord Alli was entirely within the rules, and since it was all declared on Parliament’s website what was all the fuss about? Now it is the turn of the Sentencing Council to learn the same lesson. The quango recently released draft guidelines which state that a pre-sentence repor...