Sentences with phrase «when justice secretary»

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.

Gallagher worked for Grayling when he justice secretary, leaving in 2015 to become a director at National Citizen Service.

Not exact matches

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

«For more than a year, [Horowitz] has been investigating how the Justice Department and the FBI handled the 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

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.

It remains to be seen what Gove is prepared to do on this - but it is important to note Cameron has his own priors when it comes to hanging justice secretaries out to dry when they run into trouble with the press, large sections of which continue to oppose a more liberal penal policy.

The justice secretary is also understood to have demanded that condoms be removed from prisons and was only stopped when officials stepped in to advise him on the devastating public health implications of the move.

This was a position he held till 11 June 2017, when he was promoted to Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor.

They include justice secretary Jack Straw, home secretary Jacqui Smith and Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, all of whom were in the Cabinet when the closures were approved.

There may never be a more appropriate epitaph for Chris Grayling's time as justice secretary than that offered when he addressed the Joint Committee on Human Rights last year.

The UK justice secretary Kenneth Clarke's democracy taskforce proposed allowing only English MPs to sit at the committee stage of an English - only bill until a final vote, when it would return to the full Commons.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

«The prime minister, when he leaves this chamber, should look at the comments of the justice secretary,» Mr Miliband said.

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.

However in 2016, Theresa Mays Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss said that repeal of the ECHR was not currently feasible when she said and I quote

He was shadow justice minister when Chris Grayling was justice secretary and day after day he challenged the appalling reactionary dimwittedness of the government.

Sadiq Khan was a former radical human rights lawyer and doing a good job as shadow secretary for justice when he also became shadow minister for London, and responsible for running the general election campaign in London.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to admit that over a period of «many years» hundreds of cases never came to court because warrants were not issued for the arrests of defendants when they failed to show up at court.

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».

Writing in the Telegraph today, current justice secretary Chris Grayling appeared to have already moved on from the report, when he said he might call for Britain's withdrawal from the European court of human rights if the Conservatives won the next election.

Cook joined Tim Allan's agency in January this year, having previously worked for Gove when he was justice secretary.

He re-emerged when Harriet Harman, Labour's interim leader after the 2015 general election, appointed Falconer as her shadow justice secretary.

The ECHR was criticised earlier this year by Jack Straw, justice secretary, when he described the convention as a «villains» charter».

The Tories tried their best to laugh it off, but justice secretary Ken Clarke made the situation a lot worse when he publicly hit out at May.

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.

The PM has previous when it comes to hanging justice secretaries out to dry after they have ran into trouble with the press.

«There must be no sacred cows when it comes to protecting security and administering justice - the two fundamental roles demanded of the Home Office and the home secretary,» he wrote.

«When the government cancelled G4S and Serco's electronic tagging contracts in late 2013, the then - justice secretary, Chris Grayling, promised «a fresh start for electronic monitoring»,» Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studiesjustice secretary, Chris Grayling, promised «a fresh start for electronic monitoring»,» Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice StudiesJustice Studies, said.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has told ITV that voters simply «didn't trust Labour» to deliver on social justice values when it came to election day.

[17] When the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition formed the Government in 2010, Blunt was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

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 justice secretary Richard Burgon has divided opinion by claiming he was being «put on trial» when quizzed on the content of his party's manifesto.

There were a lot of things the new justice secretary didn't know when she appeared before the justice committee earlier this month.

Sources also suggested the justice secretary had shouted «prisoners aren't going to have sex on my watch» when notified of the inquiry.

When Grayling replaced Ken Clarke as Justice Secretary, it signalled a hardening of the Tory position on a host of issues, most notably the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.

They want Wright and the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, to change the law so evidence of someone's sexual history can only be used when the similar conduct is out of the ordinary and unusual.

The complex jurisdictional legal battle ended yesterday when lawyers for the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling successfully appealed an earlier victory in the UK courts by the Barclays.

When the charge was suspended by the then Justice Secretary Michael Gove in December 2015, Howard League Chief Executive Frances Crook called the decision a «victory for justice&Justice Secretary Michael Gove in December 2015, Howard League Chief Executive Frances Crook called the decision a «victory for justice&justice».

Stuart must have winced then, when she opened Saturday's Daily Mail to see Gove's sinister piece on EU expansion that had the justice secretary's name on it but could have been penned by Farage himself.

Clegg's comments on Iraq came during an exchange with Labour's shadow justice secretary, Jack Straw, who was Tony Blair's foreign secretary when the US - led offensive began.

Jack sat down only to stand up again when Speaker Bercow realised he had got his sums wrong and the shadow justice secretary still had one question to go.

Delving into the detail of the extraordinary morning when Gove revealed he would run, Gimson says the then justice secretary never even rang Johnson to tell him he was deserting him.

Not the least, as Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary, emphasised to me when I raised the matter with him, a proper balance has to be struck between the rights of the individual and the needs of the criminal justice system.

Handing down a judgment on a judicial review brought against education secretary Nicky Morgan by six parents, Mr Justice Warby has ruled that an assertion made when the new GCSE was released in February was likely to lead schools to rely exclusively on the qualification to meet their legal obligations.

But more revealing, to me, is her spirited exchange last year with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when he visited the campus along with Secretary Chu and three other notable men, to participate in the school's annual Commencement Colloquy.

U.S. Attorney John Lausch of Chicago has been tapped to oversee the Justice Department's production of documents in a House Judiciary Committee probe into the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling came under fire at the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) annual dinner last week when CILEx President Stephen Gowland told him he was «unconvinced» by his support for the Magna Carta.

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.

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When he appeared before the House of Lords Constitution Committee in December 2015, Justice Secretary Michael Gove said that the ECHR rights were «admirable» and that the government's aim would be to «strengthen» the protection of rights.