Court Of Disapproval

Equal justice prevails for now:

The Sentencing Council, the independent body that sets out sentencing guidance to courts in England and Wales, was due to bring in new rules around how judges should determine punishment for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. The new guidance states that a pre-sentence report - the results of which are taken into account when considering a criminal's sentence - will "usually be necessary" before handing out punishment for someone from an ethnic, cultural or faith minority, alongside other groups such as young adults aged 18 to 25, women and pregnant women. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, had said the proposed guidance was "unacceptable" and amounted to "differential treatment before the law" as she urged the council to reverse it.

The law is stil the law...