Written Statement·Commons·Ministry of Justice·HCWS286

Domestic Murder Sentencing Reforms

6 December 2024

Shabana Mahmood

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Labour

Statement

This Government has set out its ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. Today, I am announcing that the Law Commission has accepted my request to undertake a review of the law of homicide and the sentencing framework for murder. In...