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  • 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

  • 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