The members of the Sentencing Council have been pushed into a humiliating climbdown – but it may well be too late to save them. The pressure rose over the weekend, with the Lord Chancellor and Prime Minister stating that they were considering emergency legislation in order to prevent the Council’s new, ‘two tier’ guidelines over Pre-Sentence Reports for ethnic minorities from coming into force.
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