Andrew Sperling

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Lipstick on a pig? Changing offender management from NOMS to HMPPS

28th February 2017

Andrew Sperling, Olliers Solicitors

OPINION: Earlier this month, Justice Minister Liz Truss announced the rebranding of the National Offenders' Management Service as Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). Andrew Sperling of Olliers Solicitors warns that the new organisation needs to demonstrate real change - or the alterations announced amount to no more than putting lipstick on a pig.

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Andrew Sperling is a Solicitor-Advocate, who was admitted as a Solicitor in 1996 and granted Higher Courts Civil Advocacy rights in 2010. He specialises in public law, Parole Board advocacy and human rights, with particular emphasis upon the rights of disabled detained persons. He has a particular interest in the interplay of media, politics and the law and a developing practice in Court of Protection work. He has extensive practical experience of the criminal justice and penal systems and significant experience of conducting difficult, high profile public law challenges, test cases and appeals.