Shabana Mahmood has ordered a review of the powers of the independent body that draws up judges’ sentencing guidelines in England and Wales following claims that new rules discriminate against white men.
The lord chancellor wrote that she “will be reviewing the role and powers of the Sentencing Council” and will introduce new laws “if necessary” after the body recommended changes that would make the ethnicity or faith of an offender a greater factor when deciding whether to jail them.
