Luckily Alex Chalk Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor also told the conference yesterday afternoon… that businesses across the globe were choosing Britain’s laws to govern contracts and British courts to settle disputes ‘because of the skill of our lawyers and the excellence of our judges’.
‘It means we have the largest legal sector in Europe and the second largest in the world,’ he added. ‘More than 200 overseas law firms have set up offices here, from over 40 jurisdictions… This success matters, conference, for all sorts of reasons, but chief among them is that it drives opportunity.
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And remember Chalk isn’t exactly on the side of new testament love peace and forgiveness.. this sort of thing comes out of his dept
Foreign prison rental to ensure public protection
The Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has announced new measures that will allow the government to rent prison cells overseas to ensure dangerous offenders can be locked up for longer.
The average prison sentence has increased by 57% since 2010 and other sentencing changes have been made to ensure the most serious offenders spend longer behind bars.
To meet this demand the government has embarked on the biggest prison expansion programme in over a century, including 6 new prisons, to create an additional 20,000 places.
Around 5,500 of these places have already been built and an additional 2,400 places have been created in the existing prison estate since September last year by doubling up on cell occupancy where it is safe to do so and delaying non-urgent maintenance work.
The Justice Secretary unveiled the government will now also enter exploratory discussions with potential partner countries in Europe to rent prison space abroad.
Agreements would mean that prisoners in the UK could be moved to another country’s prison estate provided the facilities, regime and rehabilitation provided meets British standards. This is similar to steps taken by Belgium and Norway which have used foreign prison places in the Netherlands in the last decade.
The government will legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows to enable any future arrangements and will require that conditions are to the same standard as prisons in England and Wales.
