The new measure is part of the wide-ranging Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, unveiled this week by Chris Grayling, aimed at revamping sentencing and ensuring the Courts deliver efficiency for the taxpayer.
The new measure is part of the wide-ranging Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, unveiled this week by Chris Grayling, aimed at revamping sentencing and ensuring the Courts deliver efficiency for the taxpayer.
The new measure is part of the wide-ranging Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, unveiled this week by Chris Grayling, aimed at revamping sentencing and ensuring the Courts deliver efficiency for the taxpayer.
The new measure is part of the wide-ranging Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, unveiled this week by Chris Grayling, aimed at revamping sentencing and ensuring the Courts deliver efficiency for the taxpayer. As a result, convicted criminals will be made to pay towards the cost of running the country’s criminal courts. All convicted adult offenders will have to pay a charge with the money being reinvested back into the running of the courts.
The Ministry of Justice have introduced some measures in a bid to ensure criminals are punished properly, with the scrapping of automatic early release for terrorists and child rapists. Sentencing loopholes will also be closed, with the creation of a new offence for being on the run. Changes to cautions are also to be introduced.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said:
“My priority with these reforms is to deliver a tough package of sentencing measures to make sure offenders are punished properly and consistently, so that the law-abiding majority know that we’re making the changes needed to keep them and their families safe. I also want to make sure we reduce the burden on hardworking taxpayers of the costs of running the courts.
“The public expects that serious and repeat criminals should be punished appropriately, and that those who are jailed should have to earn the right to be released early from prison. It is only right that those offenders who break the law and try to avoid serving the entirety of their sentence by going on the run face additional punishment when they are caught.
“From my first day in this job I have been clear that people must have confidence in our justice system. We’re on the side of people who work hard and want to get on, and that is why these reforms will make sure that those who commit crime pay their way and contribute towards the cost of their court cases.”
The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill proposes the following changes to the law: