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- 11 March 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC today welcomed the Court of Appeal's decision that a minimum term of 20 years, handed to John McFarlane when he was sentenced to life last November, was unduly lenient, and increased the minimum term to 30 years.
- 02 March 2010
Tate Modern yesterday hosted an Attorney General's Youth Network event to kick-start an expansion of the network into the fields of performing and visual arts
- 25 February 2010
Solicitor General Vera Baird QC, examines current practice on treating cases of rape and sexual offences in the criminal justice system and calls for a new way of looking at statistics.
- 24 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Scotland QC has successfully appealed the sentence of a man who attacked his wife with a heated iron.
- 16 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has decided not to refer the sentences imposed on two boys, now aged 11 and 12, for an attack on two others to the Court of Appeal.
- 05 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, is today visiting two projects in Exeter to see first hand how they coordinate partnerships between law students, courts and the local council to really make a difference to the justice system
- 04 February 2010
A pioneering lesson package is to be rolled out across England and Wales by the Crown Prosecution Service
- 03 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, is to deliver the inaugural lecture of the University of Sussex's "Issues in Criminal Justice" series
- 02 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has appointed Mike Fuller, currently Chief Constable of Kent Police, to the role of HM Crown Prosecution Service Chief Inspector.
- 21 January 2010
The National Fraud Authority (NFA) has released the UK's first comprehensive fraud estimate which estimates that fraud costs the UK over £30 billion a year.
- 25 February 2010
In a speech to St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre Manchester. Annual conference: 'Sex Crimes & Vulnerable Adults'. Solicitor General Vera Baird QC examines how these crimes are recorded and the messages around them
- 23 February 2010
Solicitor General's speech to the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) Seminar on Human Trafficking
- 04 February 2010
Attorney General's speech to CPS National Schools Project Launch - 4th February 2010.
- 03 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC delivers the inaugural lecture of Sussex University's "Issues in Criminal Justice
- 19 January 2010
The Administrative Law Bar Association, Inner Temple Hall, London The role of the Attorney General in the 21st Century The Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC, Attorney General
- 05 January 2010
The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem Faculty Of Law. The Lionel Cohen Lecture Series 5 January 2010
- 08 December 2009
A speech given by Baroness Scotland to the Lovell's Women's Network Event on 8 December 2009
- 19 November 2009
Speech to the Dacorum Domestic Violence Forum annual training conference, Hemel Hempstead
- 05 November 2009
Praising the achievements of CPS-trained lawyers and launching revised plea and sentencing guidelines
- 29 October 2009
Outlining the breadth and importance of the work of the Government Legal Service lawyers