"Sentencing Council Suspends Controversial Guidelines After Tory Campaign"

Conservative and Reform Post: 31st March 2025: Article reporting the Sentencing Council dramatic U-turn, suspending its controversial ‘two-tier justice’ guidelines following an extraordinary campaign led by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick

Judges had been preparing to implement new rules advising courts to “normally consider” pre-sentence reports for criminals who were “an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community”, transgender, young or female—but made no such provision for other offenders.

...The policy sparked fury across the political spectrum, with the Conservative’s Robert Jenrick KC MP leading the charge to scrap the divisive proposals, warning they would embed discrimination into British justice and damage public confidence in the legal system.

The dramatic climbdown came just three days after Lord Justice Davis defiantly claimed the council would not bow to government pressure—a position now utterly reversed...

...With Labour forced onto the back foot and the Sentencing Council in retreat, it was Jenrick’s relentless campaign that turned the tide—a powerful example of political pressure delivering real change in the name of justice..."

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