George Beglan: The Manslaughter exemption, why it matters and why Burnham shouldn't be handwringing

George Beglan: The Manslaughter exemption, why it matters and why Burnham shouldn't be handwringing

George Beglan holds an LLM (Distinction) from Durham and read Jurisprudence at Oxford; he has published on law reform in the Cambridge Law Review And so the U-turns begin again, less than a month in. Downing Street’s line on PC Andrew Harper’s killers is that you cannot carve out ‘one or two offenders’ from the early release scheme without excluding manslaughter wholesale. Fine: exclude it wholesale. The government has treated this as a reductio…