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  • 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

  • Solicitor General welcomes sentence increase for fraudsters who preyed on elderly

    North Yorkshire builders who defrauded elderly and vulnerable people out of large sums of money had their sentences increased today.

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

  • Increased sentence handed to violent Penzance rapist

    After reference from Solicitor General, Court of Appeal increases sentence of Lee David Hosking from 9 and a half years’ imprisonment to 13

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

  • Northampton man has sentence increased to life for brutal rape

    Gintas Burinskas' sentence becomes one of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 6 years

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

  • Court of Appeal finds rape and human trafficking sentences unduly lenient

    Manchester couple who kept vulnerable woman as unpaid domestic servant see sentences increased

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

  • Devon doctor sees sentence increased

    The Court of Appeal has increased the sentence for Suhail Ahmed from 18 months’ imprisonment to 30 for voyeurism and sexual assault

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

  • Court of Appeal finds 25 year murder sentence unduly lenient

    Minimum term of Glenn Nelson increased to 30 years for murder of Krishnamaya Mabo

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

  • Gosport man has sentence increased to 9 years

    Samuel Armstrong has his sentence for serious attack on Andrew Toseland increased after reference by Solicitor General

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

  • English Law Students' Association address at Durham University

    Role of the Law Officers, history and current work

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

  • 5 years for County Durham man for possession of Luger pistol

    Sentence increase for Joseph Wright from 18 months after unduly lenient sentence appeal by Solicitor General

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

  • Speech to the Expert Witness Institute annual conference 2013: from silting harbours to hot tubbing

    The shifting legal landscape and the imminent effect on solicitors and their experts

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

  • Facebook grooming case

    The Court of Appeal found that the 6 ½ yr sentence given to facebook groomer Husaini Master was unduly lenient and raised it to 9 yrs

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

  • Court of Appeal increases sentence of man who conned elderly

    Court of Appeal found the 21 month sentence given to Bernard Collins for conspiracy to defraud unduly lenient and increased it to 3 ½ years

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

  • Fighting economic crime in the modern world

    Solicitor General makes the opening speech of the 31st Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

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

  • The mechanics of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in the UK

    Speech to the C5 7th Advanced Forum on Anti Corruption on the role of prosecutors and the court

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

  • Institute of Barristers’ Clerks Annual Conference 2013

    Discussion of topical issues in the criminal justice system and the work of the Law Officers' departments

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

  • Modern Day Slavery: How can we stop the traffic?

    Speech by Solicitor General Oliver Heald QC MP

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