Labour legend Jack Straw is first to call on Keir Starmer to back away from ECHR
The former New Labour cabinet minister has criticised the foreign court's quality of judges and lack of democratic ...
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Labour’s prisons reform is a policy of necessity, not choice
Does the Labour government’s new approach on prisons ... home secretary from Howard (who actually did say it) through to Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke or John Reid in 2007.
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Jack Straw says UK government should axe defendant's right to elect jury trial
Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury trial. Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice ...
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Former justice secretary Jack Straw says right to choose jury trial lets defendants ‘game’ courts
The government should scrap the right of defendants to choose trial by jury for some mid-range offences, former justice secretary Jack ... to Mr Straw, who served as one of New Labour’s most ...
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Six reasons Labour's current Cabinet are pipsqueaks compared to the big beasts of old
Jack Straw was photographed alongside Yvette Cooper ... Tony Blair also spoke, while Keir Starmer was there as Labour mourner-in-chief. In each case, the comparison between a giant of the ...
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OPINION - Jack Straw is trying to smuggle a dangerous idea back into Britain's justice system
Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary ... something he tried and failed to do 25 years ago when in power. Labour is conducting a review into sentencing in the criminal courts, with the ...