Sentences with phrase «reforming justice secretary»

He could be a reforming Justice Secretary in a future Labour government.

The prime minister is lending his support to the reforming justice secretary Michael Gove and, as when he made previous speeches supporting justice secretaries Ken Clarke and Chris Grayling, his focus is on reoffending.

Not exact matches

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

The new Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, seeks more cash with the strong support of her predecessor, Michael Gove, in order to implement important and radical prison reforms.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan complimented Lansley's «poker face» as the leader of the House argued the reforms were for the good of voters.

And it is very hard to see the justice secretary hitting the chancellor's spending targets without taking on prison numbers more directly through sentencing reform.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

«This government's approach to constitutional reform is in tatters,» shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said.

This was Cameron's first major speech on law and order since the departure of the liberal justice secretary Kenneth Clarke, who had emphasised the importance of rehab in his reforms.

He accuses Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan of being secretly opposed to Lords reform, claiming Khan «hides behind the argument that there's not enough time to debate it».

Prisons should be about punishment and reform, something I've repeatedly said since I became shadow justice secretary in 2010.

The justice secretary's decision to close down a prison sex investigation is the latest example of his hostility to penal reform groups

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»

Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, has already been mocking Clegg, accusing him of naivety in ever trusting the prime minister on constitutional reform.

I imagine I'll be writing the exact same article the next time a secretary of state for justice addresses prison reform.

The high court has ruled Grayling's legal aid reforms to be illegal, in a devastating blow for the justice secretary

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

«Secretary Clinton today laid out the type of progressive vision on criminal justice reforms the City Council is fighting for in New York,» said Mark - Viverito who still declined to endorse Clinton but said she was looking forward to hearing more on the issue.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Instead they argued that it was possible to reform the Strasbourg court — a process that Clarke accelerated when he was justice secretary — and deal with the tabloid attacks that it was no more than a «criminal's charter».

We sincerely hope that the secretary of state and his colleagues will read this report and will act on the committee's recommendation so that the government's reforms do not deny the most vulnerable people in society access to justice.

Home secretary John Reid is expected to outline a major overhaul of the criminal justice system next month, but today the prime minister outlined the key areas in which he believed reform was most urgent.

The justice secretary stressed his track record of reform - and said he was lacking in «charisma» and «glamour».

Writing for Politics.co.uk, the shadow justice secretary said Chris Grayling was «burying his head in the sand» when he blocked an inquiry into sex and rape behind bars by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Cameron had preferred that he take over from Ken Clarke as justice secretary, but IDS - suspicious of Treasury hostility towards his welfare reforms - made clear that he would rather not budge anywhere, thank you very much.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

The report comes at a point when justice secretary Kenneth Clarke has committed to reforming the prison service and outlined policies to reduce the size of the prison population.

The Criminal Justice Alliance, a coalition of leading criminal justice organisations whose members include Liberty, the Prison Officers» Association and the Prison Reform Trust, wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw in August 2008 calling for the plans to be scJustice Alliance, a coalition of leading criminal justice organisations whose members include Liberty, the Prison Officers» Association and the Prison Reform Trust, wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw in August 2008 calling for the plans to be scjustice organisations whose members include Liberty, the Prison Officers» Association and the Prison Reform Trust, wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw in August 2008 calling for the plans to be scJustice Secretary Jack Straw in August 2008 calling for the plans to be scrapped.

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

Labour's Jack Straw, who served as both home secretary and justice secretary and attempted his own reforms of the Lords when in government, urged the prime minister to consider calling a pre-legislative referendum to avoid a «trainwreck» to Commons business in light of the fact that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were «divided on this issue».

Shadow Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice (with responsibility for political and constitutional reform) Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

He was a reforming, if controversial, education secretary between 2010 and 2014, and now holds the Ministry of Justice brief.

A purely Conservative Government would not be pressing ahead with reform of the House of Lords in this parliament, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke admitted today.

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Responding to the reports the shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, refused to take responsibilty for the impasse, saying: «We warned Nick Clegg that the real roadblock to reforming the Lords was the Tory party — something we learned the hard way from our 13 years in government.

Iain Duncan Smith rejected offer of Justice secretary to thwart George Osborne over welfare reforms — His decision meant that Mr Duncan Smith also turned down the position of Lord Chancellor, one of the oldest political roles in Britain dating back to 1066... to investigate the development of the single payment, which is due to replace...

The High Court held that the Ministry of Justice would be acting unlawfully if it were to include mesothelioma claimants in reforms in the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) without a review and report on the likely impact, in R (on the application of Tony Whitson) v Justice Secretary [2014] EWHC 3044 (Admin).

During pupillage, Zac gained extensive experience on leading competition cases, including Sky v Ofcom [2015] CAT 9 (assisting David Scannell) and Speed Medical Examination Services v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 3585, a judicial review challenging reforms to the process for handling soft tissue whiplash claims on the basis (inter alia) that they gave rise to breaches of competition law (assisting Gerard Rothschild).

As a pupil, Zac was also involved in: R (on the application of RWE Generation UK Plc) v Gas and Electricity Markets Authority [2016] 1 CMLR 17, a challenge against a decision modifying the charges imposed on users of the National Grid (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); Speed Medical Examination Services Ltd v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 3585, a judicial review challenging reforms to the process for handling whiplash claims (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); and an application for interim relief by a company that had been redesignated under a European Union sanctions regime (as a pupil assisting Maya Lester).

Justice secretary Chris Grayling has tabled two concessions on proposals to reform judicial review in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove said he did not accept the Justice Committee's findings that the Ministry had «largely failed to achieve [its] wider objectives for reform beyond achieving savings», in his response to the Committee's report into the impact of the changes to civil legal aid under Part 1 of LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act), published this week.

Jack Straw the secretary of state for justice and lord chancellor, announced the publication of the long - awaited government white paper on reform of the House of Lords (An Elected Second Chamber: Further Reform of the House of Lords, Cm 7438) on 14 Julyreform of the House of Lords (An Elected Second Chamber: Further Reform of the House of Lords, Cm 7438) on 14 JulyReform of the House of Lords, Cm 7438) on 14 July 2008.

In July 2007, Jack Straw MP, the secretary of state for justice and lord chancellor, unveiled a green paper (The Governance of Britain, Cm 7170) which set out to promote «a national conversation» on even further reform of the constitution.

Reforming the personal injury business is some thing that the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw has hasn't approved...

«I genuinely believe «access to justice» is the hallmark of a civilised society,» wrote the then justice secretary Ken Clarke as he introduced his legal aid reforms.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw will now have to await the results of the General Election to see if he can make a second attempt to push the reforms through.