The present database in England and Wales holds details of 4m people who are guilty or cleared of a crime. Lord Justice Sedley said this was indefensible and biased against ethnic minorities, and it ...

That review was led by Lord Carloway, now the Lord Justice General, the country's most senior judge. He will be one of the nine who will decide whether the 1937 ruling has had its day.

Lord Justice William Davis said that any suggestion to guidelines for judges would give preferential treatment to minority groups was 'completely wrong' after a backlash by Labour ministers and ...

She requested an urgent meeting in her letter to the chairman of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, Lord Justice William Davis, adding that “no minister” in this Government approved ...

A former Lord Chief Justice has called for an overhaul of the controversial Single Justice Procedure, saying it is currently “tilted against fairness”. The fast-track court process, which deals with ...