{"id":558773,"date":"2026-04-30T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:45:12","slug":"olivias-law-gets-final-royal-assent-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558773\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Olivia&#8217;s Law&#8217; gets final Royal Assent approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Royal Assent is the final procedural stage of a bill passing through UK parliament before it becomes law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice, Baroness Leavitt KC, said during the hearing in the Lords earlier this month: &#8220;It&#8217;s been a pleasure to bring the Victims and Courts Bill through this house, which is now another step closer to becoming law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This bill will deliver on our manifesto commitment to support and protect victims, restore confidence in our justice system and implement swifter and fairer justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The law will also protect innocent children by restricting the exercise of parental responsibility by offenders sentenced for serious child sexual abuse, and where a rape has resulted in the birth of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will also ensure victims have longer than ever to challenge sentences they do not feel fit the crime they have suffered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal Assent is the final procedural stage of a bill passing through UK parliament before it becomes law.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}