{"id":942,"date":"2009-04-30T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2009-07-30T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:50:43","slug":"senior-judges-sentencing-council-will-end-in-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Senior judges &#8211; &#8216;Sentencing Council&#8217; will end in injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-889\" style=\"width:130px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/straw_jack.jpg\" alt=\"straw_jack\" width=\"130\" height=\"90\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Jack Straw<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Senior judges have attacked Jack Straw, saying his plans for &#8216;Sentencing Council&#8217; will end in injustice and have accused him of trying to fix sentences in serious criminal trials.<\/p>\n<p>They launched a furious protest over plans by the Justice Secretary to set up a new &#8216;Sentencing Council&#8217; to guide the courts on how deal with offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit judges who preside at Crown Court trials said the scheme would &#8216;result in injustice&#8217; and called them &#8216;unnecessary, costly and unwelcome&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Times report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1164838\/Senior-judges-attack-Jack-Straw-saying-plans-Sentencing-Council-end-injustice.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Straw Senior judges have attacked Jack Straw, saying his plans for &#8216;Sentencing Council&#8217; will end in injustice and have accused him of trying to fix sentences in serious criminal trials. They launched a furious protest over plans by the Justice Secretary to set up a new &#8216;Sentencing Council&#8217; to guide the courts on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}