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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 June 2025
Debate
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillContribution
The truth is that we already have a two-tier criminal justice system that is marred by inequality—an inequality of outcomes. It was that inequality that the Sentencing Council was seeking to address with these proposed guidelines. We say that was a proper approach for it to take. Far from undermining the principle that everyone is equal before the law, in which we all believe, the proposed guidelines would have reinforced it.
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