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  • Court of Appeal increases indecent assault sentence

    The Court of Appeal today imposed a sentence of 3 and a half years' imprisonment on Marie McCarthy for indecent assault of a 15 year old

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Prison sentences of West Midlands gang referred to Court of Appeal

    Fourteen offenders linked to the infamous Burger Bar Boys gang in Birmingham may have their prison sentences increased after a referral today by Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Northern burglary gang receive increased prison sentences

    The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentences of Richard Copeland, Glenn Milburn and Ian Froom for a spate of burglaries in the north east of England.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • North Shields robbers receive increased sentences

    The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentences of Paul Oliver and Thomas Bailey to 19 years’ imprisonment with an extended four year licence period for a number of violent offences.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Newcastle paedophile’s sentence increased to six and a half years

    The Court of Appeal has today increased the custodial sentence of Bahmani Ahmadi to 6 years and 6 months’ imprisonment.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Beccles rapist to spend longer in prison

    The Court of Appeal today increased the unduly lenient sentence handed to rapist Martin Tom.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Swansea armed robber found to be a dangerous offender

    The Court of Appeal today imposed an extended sentence of imprisonment against Swansea armed robber Robert Quinn after finding him to be a dangerous offender.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Exeter rapist sees sentence increase

    The Court of Appeal today quashed the 6 year sentence given to Exeter rapist Lawrence Fernandes and increased it to 12 years.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • The Solicitor General on Disability Hate Crime

    An article from Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP on the need to address the growing problem of disability hate crime in the UK.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • London and Essex rapists see sentence increase

    The Court of Appeal finds two rape sentences unduly lenient and increases them by a total of 16 years.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Solicitor General attends Overseas Territories General Conference

    Solicitor General, Robert Buckland, last week joined the Attorneys General of 11 of the UK’s Overseas Territories Annual Conference Anguilla

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Media advisory – complainant in Operation Midland

    An advisory to editors, publishers and social media users to avoid indentifying complainants in sexual abuse cases

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Robert Buckland addresses Police College on Disability Hate Crime

    The Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP has attended a hate crime co-ordinators meeting at the Police College in Ryton

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • The Limits of the Law – The role of compliance in the 21st Century

    Solicitor General’s keynote address to the 33rd Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Redditch man sees sentence doubled to 20 years’ imprisonment for multiple rapes

    Appeal Court increases the 10 year rape sentence of John Dennis to 20 years after ruling the original sentence unduly lenient.

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    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • Solicitor General issues advisory note on Hillsborough inquest

    The Solicitor General asks people to take care when commenting about the Hillsborough inquest

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Solicitor General meets apprentice law degree students

    To celebrate National Apprenticeships Week 2015, Robert Buckland QC MP visits Addleshaw Goddard law firm to meet law students

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Home Secretary publishes Government response to Rotherham reports

    Today the Home Secretary laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament on the Government’s response to Professor Alexis Jay’s report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham and Louise Casey’s follow up report on the p…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Solicitor General speech on business and human rights

    On Human Rights day Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP delivered a speech on business and human rights at the Law Society Conference

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New Law Officers appointed

    The Prime Minister has appointed the Rt Hon Jeremy Wright MP as Attorney General and Robert Buckland MP as Solicitor General

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government