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Your support makes all the difference.The Lord Chief Justice is expected to savage the Home Secretary today in the House of Lords. Lord Justice Taylor, who is retiring due to ill health, will deliver a broadside to Michael Howard, accusing him of introducing production-line justice on the basis of tainted statistics.
In a speech during a parliamentary debate on Mr Howard's white paper, previewed in today's Times, Lord Taylor says there is "no merit in adopting a macho attitude regardless of its efficacy". He adds that that jailing repeat offenders for a minimum of three years would force judges to "ratchet up" other terms, with a resultant increase in the prison population. The speech is expected to unleash an torrent of criticism in the Lords of Mr Howard's policies.
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