Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s sentence not unduly lenient, attorney general says
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s sentence was not unduly lenient and will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, the attorney general has said.
Daily Mail29d
DAN HODGES: Starmer needs to offload his Calamity KC - before voters start to realise how politically dangerous he is
The mystery man was Lord (Richard) Hermer. And what he wanted was to be ... now knows all too well the identity of this embattled KC. In an administration increasingly defined by blunders and ...
Solicitors Journal25d
Attorney General rules on case
The Attorney General Lord Hermer KC has confirmed that Axel Rudakubana's sentence will not be increased under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme following a careful review of legal advice and ...
The Punch Newspapers27d
UK Attorney General rules out appeal in teen murderer Rudakubana sentencing review
The UK Attorney General, Lord Hermer KC, has announced that Axel Rudakubana’s life sentence for the brutal murders of three young girls in Southport will not be referred to the Court of Appeal ...
UK Human Rights Blog17d
The Weekly Round-Up: Axel Rudabakana, Judicial independence, predictive policing and illegal surrogacy
Round-Up: Axel Rudabakana, Judicial independence, predictive policing, and illegal surrogacy leading to statelessness ...
The Independent28d
How the attorney general became a legal time bomb for Keir Starmer
So when the government is under pressure for its excessive respect for international law, it is no wonder that Lord Hermer is taking so much of the heat. In any conversation about a possible ...
The Daily Telegraph23d
Lord Hermer won £750,000 for heroin-addicted prisoners
Lord Hermer helped secure a £750,000 payout for almost 200 prisoners who had been stopped from taking heroin substitutes behind bars. In a High Court test case in the 2000s, the Attorney General ...
Daily Express24d
Labour civil war as MPs turn on Starmer ally Lord Hermer over 'conflicts of interest'
Sir Keir Starmer’s ethics tsar must investigate Lord Hermer over potential conflicts of interest, Labour MPs have demanded. The Attorney General is under fire for refusing to reveal details of ...
The Sun26d
PM’s law chief praised eco activists as ‘frankly inspiring’ as Britain was in the grip of Just Stop Oil protests
Lord Hermer also appeared to question if a new law and order crackdown on zealots like Extinction Rebellion was needed. The explosive comments pile yet more pressure on the Cabinet minister ...
The Jewish Chronicle1mon
Labour peer calls on ‘progressive fool’ Lord Hermer to resign as Attorney General
Hermer has been the subject of recent attacks by both the Opposition and his cabinet colleagues, including over the Chagos Islands and his cases against the British state Lord Hermer, the Attorney ...
Politics26d
Week-in-Review: Lord Hermer, Blue Labour and the defining choice Keir Starmer faces
Lord Hermer is cut from the same silk as the Starmer of 2015. The human rights law specialists are close personal friends, having practised as colleagues at Doughty Street Chambers in the noughties.