The Sentencing Council has refused a request from the Lord Chancellor to change guidance that prompted a row over “two-tier ...

The lord chancellor has repeated her promise to 'legislate as necessary' following the Sentencing Council's rejection of her ...

Lord Chancellor's speech at the 2025 King's Counsel appointment ceremony, recognising those who have been formally appointed to the rank of KC and ...

Public safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places", Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new ...

The Lord Chancellor's powers to appoint judges and Queen's Counsels appeared to be under fresh threat today following the "cash for wigs" affair. Lord Irvine has been accused of "damaging 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 ...

William Hague will be formally inaugurated as Oxford University chancellor today. Lord Hague will become the 160th recorded chancellor in the University's history and will succeed Lord Patten of ...

Lord Hague, the former Conservative party leader, has been elected as the next chancellor of the University of Oxford. He will be formally inaugurated early in the new year, becoming the 160th ...

Your weekly update from the Law Society’s public affairs team on all the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall. This week: new two-form TA6 approach, lord chancellor ...

In a letter to the independent body, the Lord Chancellor said she “must make clear my displeasure” at the changes, adding: “I do not stand for differential treatment before the law like this.” ...

Council 'respectfully disagrees' with Shabana Mahmood's 'proposition that the list of cohorts in the guideline represented an expression of policy'.