Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per ...

Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg's inflation-busting pay rise is to be put on hold pending a review. Lord Irvine has decided to take the same percentage increase as his Cabinet colleagues - 2. ...

The Lord Chancellor has confirmed that former judge Her Honour Deborah Taylor will chair a statutory inquiry into the ...

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, is set to get a £90,000-a-year pension when he retires, it was disclosed today. The Sun, under the front page headline "Insult", said that Lord Irvine would also ...

Lord Chancellor’s speech at the 2025 King’s Counsel appointment ceremony honoured new appointees and their contributions to law In her speech at the 2025 King’s Counsel appointment ceremony, the Lord ...

On Monday evening, the council said in a statement: “The Lord Chancellor and the chairman of the Sentencing Council met this morning. At that meeting, the Lord Chancellor indicated her intention ...

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood was challenged by the Conservatives to say whether she has confidence in the independent body’s chairman, Lord Justice William Davis.

The Sentencing Council has refused a request from the Lord Chancellor to change guidance that prompted a row over “two-tier justice”. Sir Keir Starmer said he was “disappointed” with the ...

The Sentencing Council has postponed guidance that sparked a major political backlash in the face of imminent legislation threatened by the lord chancellor. Revised guidance on the imposition of ...

Her Honour Deborah Taylor, a former circuit court judge who retired in 2022, was appointed by Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood on Tuesday to "undertake a thorough, independent assessment of the ...