Today, the minister for justice, James Cartlidge, faced questions from the shadow minister, Steve Reed. Reed referred to the average time between a victim reporting a rape and the case coming to trial “hitting a new high of over 1,000 days” and that the government proposal to give magistrates more sentencing powers “could make the…
Labour’s shadow justice secretary Steve Reed has labelled the government’s proposed changes to the Human Rights Act as ‘a dead cat distraction’. Speaking to the Commons, Reed said: “It’s a dead cat distraction tactic by a government that doesn’t know how to fix the criminal justice system that they’ve broken and is desperate to divert…
