Peers debate the King’s Speech (topics: Home affairs, crime and justice, and devolution), Wednesday 8 November 2023 – highlights 🧵👇 Minister Lord Bellamy outlines new measures including plans to “expand the use of the successful home detention curfew scheme to allow more lower-risk prisoners on standard determinate sentences to be safely managed on electronic tags in the community, rather than in #prison”

Westminster Hall debate on Imprisonment for Public Protection (#IPP) Sentences, @CommonsJustice report and Government response – Thursday 27 April 2023: highlights 🧵 1/44 Opening the debate @CommonsJustice chair @neill_bob explains #IPP sentences were abolished in 2012 mainly because “far more people fell within the scope of the scheme than had been the political intention”, but Govt “did not deal with those who were already serving sentences”2/44

Debating this week’s motion on @SuellaBraverman, Shadow HS @YvetteCooperMP points out “there is also a serious question about whether the Home Secretary has just made things worse by ignoring legal advice and allowing dangerous overcrowding” at the #Manston immigration camp 1/6 .@CommonsHomeAffs chair @DianaJohnsonMP asks how #Manston size hit 4,000 “in a facility that was only designed for 1,600” – @YvetteCooperMP points out @SuellaBraverman was warned of a “very high risk of successful legal challenge because of the Home Office breaking the law” 2/6

At this week’s @CommonsJustice session with the Lord Chief Justice, @KarlTurnerMP asks whether #CommonPlatform is fit for purpose – Lord Burnett of Maldon warns of “a lot of technical problems” & reveals @MoJGovUK is carrying out “a light-touch review” @pcs_union @PCSMOJNOMS 1/4 Lord Chief Justice explains that in-court resulting by legal advisers and clerks as part of #CommonPlatform “has proved to be much more difficult in many cases […] has slowed things down and has also put the people who are doing it under a great deal of strain” @PCSMOJNOMS 2/4