Media January/February/March/April 2022
CCRC ‘Watch Dog” or ‘Lap Dog
Increasing Over-Representation of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in Custody
Self-Harm Amongst Women Prisoners Eight Times That of Men
Joint Enterprise Ruling Has Not Led to Fewer Homicide Charges
Lescene Edwards's Murder Conviction Overturned
Spycops’ Deception - Groomed/Gaslighted/ Ghosted — The Long Fight For Justice
USA: Wrongly Convicted Man Served Three Decades in Prison
Spycops’ Deception - Groomed/Gaslighted/ Ghosted — The Long Fight For Justice
CCRC Refers Youth Court indecent Images Convictions to Crown Court
CCRC Statement: Northern Ireland Court of Appeal Referrals
Prisons: Additional Healthcare Support Needed to Aid Covid-19 Recovery and Save Lives
High Court Case Will Proceed Over Government’s ‘Unlawful’ Bulk Surveillance
CCRC Refers 1970s Murder Conviction to Northern Ireland Court of Appeal
HMP/YOI Deerbolt Inspection - Deeply Worrying
Magistrates’ Views on Keeping the Wheels of Justice Turning
Criminal Injuries Compensation and ‘Undeserving’ Victims
Magistrates’ Views on Keeping the Wheels of Justice Turning
Women: Tackling Double Disadvantage in the Criminal System
#ReclaimThese Streets Liverpool Vigil Prosecution Discontinued
Thousands of Barristers to Strike Over Legal Aid
Urgent Call to Action - Dangerous Attempt to Criminalise Sex Workers’ Online Advertising
Take Action For a Fairer Criminal Records System
Female Black and Asian Prisoners Detail Racism Endured in Landmark Report
CPS Challenged Over ‘Racist Stereotypes’ Behind Joint Enterprise Prosecutions
Kelly Hartigan-Burns: Litany of Failures in Lancashire Police Custody Death
Homelessness Applications and the Right to Challenge Decisions
UK Prisons Have One of Highest Suicide Rates According to Council Of Europe
‘Wild West’ Warning on Predictive Policing
Weaponising Violence Against Women: From Ireland to Poland
Young People and Criminal Appeals: Can You Help?
UK Still Imprison More of our Fellow Citizens Than Other European Countries
Reform of the Parole System: Justice Secretary to Have the Final Say on Release of Prisoners
Justice Secretary Raab Pledges to Stop Release of Criminals From Jail
Proportion of Ethnic Minority Prisoners on Remand Rises 17% in Six Years
Mothers and Babies Join Protest Against UK Imprisonment of Pregnant Women
Six Out of 10 Women in Prison are Victims of Domestic Abuse
Why The Birmingham Six’s Story Must Not Be Forgotten
Murder/Fitting up/Misconduct – West Midlands Police a Stain on the Nation
Police Using Covid Regulations as an ‘Excuse’ to Harass the Young
Homophobic ‘Assumptions’ Led To Botched Stephen Port Investigation
Child Abuse Victims Denied Payouts Due to Convictions
Is Imprisonment Before Trial the Result of Poor Risk Assessment?
90% of Met Officers Disciplined for Racism Still Work For Force
Bloody Sunday: High Court Quashes Decision to Discontinue Soldier F Case
Rate of Unsolved Killings of Black and Asian People Has Trebled Under Dick
Three Girls in England Held in Male Offender Institution For Months
Daniel Morgan Murder: Met Anti-Corruption Measures ‘Dire’, Damning Report Finds
Birmingham Pub Bombings: Chris Mullin Wins Fight To Protect Source
Prison Inspectors to Stop Making Recommendations as They are Ignored by Governors
It’s Official: Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Suffers From Problems
Gary Walker Takes CCRC to Court and Wins
HMP Channings Wood Bans Sugar - Stop Prisoners Making Hooch
UK Proportion of Remand Prisoners Who Are Minority Ethnic Rises 17% in Six Years
Diane Abbott Comments on Police Strip-Search of a 15-Year-Old Black Girl at School
Police Officers Accused of Abuse Avoid Convictions and Keep Their Jobs
Dominic Raab’s Courts Plan: Making a Bad Situation Worse
West Midlands Firearms Officer Investigated for Potential Homicide Offences Following Death of Sean Fitzgerald
More Than 400,000 People are Locked up Pretrial Every Single Day in the US
CCRC Refer Conviction of Patrick Thompson for Murder to Court of Appeal
CCRC Refers Youth Court Indecent Images Convictions to Crown Court
Don’t Return to Full Wing Unlock, Says Prison Officers Association
Human Rights Act Reform May Halt Payouts to Prisoners
Human Rights Reform: ‘Incoherent, Based on Misunderstanding and Biased’
Brook House IRC Inquiry: Senior Staff Knew Custody Officers Were Smuggling
Independent Domestic Violence Advocates in Specialist Courts – a Backfire Effect?
IPP Scandal: Prisoners Stranded as ‘Non-Existent’ Offences Added to Files
Inquiry: Role of Adult Custodial Remand in the Criminal Justice System
Prison-Based Addiction Treatment Pathways
Prison White Paper Ignores Race, Say Charity Chiefs
Offending Behaviour Courses Slump Due To Covid and This May Delay Parole
MPs highlight ‘Police Culture of Non-Cooperation’ in Complaints-Handling System
BBC TV Licensing Prosecutions are a Feminist Issue
Policing Bill to End ‘Slap on the Wrist’ for Low-Level Offences
Not up to Police to Decide Which Documents Should be Revealed to the Defence
Innocence is Not Grounds for Appeal
When is Evidence Not Evidence
Government Proposals to Replace Human Rights Act Sends "Dangerous Message" on Treatment of Prisoners
Do People Who Get in Trouble With The Law Deserve Double Punishment?
Online Petition - Stop the Recall of Released IPP Prisoners
Prisoners Faced ‘Significant Human Rights Concerns’ During Pandemic
Inquest into Self-Inflicted Death of Kelly Hartigan-Burns in Lancashire Police Station
Police Move to Ban Reporters From Birmingham Six Journalist Hearing
‘Toxic’ Racism of Home Office’s Immigration Staff Contractor
Falling Foul of Contempt of Court May be Easier Than You Think
CCRC Watch, a New Empowering the Innocent (ETI) Project
200 Trials Abandoned in Three Months Because of Non-Availability of Defence Lawyers
Police are Hounding Chris Mullin for his Source – That Freed the Birmingham Six
‘Things Changed Forever’: Posthumous Justice for Another Member of the Shrewsbury 24
England and Wales to Get Extra 4,000 Prison Places in Record Expansion
Mayfair Diamond Thief Ordered to Pay Back £250 After £4.2m Haul
Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) - Must be Ended or Reformed
Devil’s Advocate Giovanni Di Stefano Vindicated and his 2013 Conviction Quashed by CPOS
Love, Lies and the Undercover Police
Know Any One in Prison Tell Them to Apply for Immediate Transfer to HMP Five Wells
Foreign National Women More Likely to be Remanded in Custody than British Women
Making Misogyny A Hate Crime Is Long Overdue
Foston Hall Women’s Prison Inmates Making 1,000 Calls a Month to Samaritans
Rastafarian Woman 'Humiliated' by Police Strip Order
Disproportionate Sentencing of BAME Women
Overrepresentation of Black Children’ in Youth Justice System
Women’s Groups Seek End to UK Courts’ Powers to Jail People For Own Protection
Northern Ireland Prisons: 'Solitary Confinement' Breaking UN Standards
Overrepresentation of Black Children’ in Youth Justice System
Women’s Groups Seek End to UK Courts’ Powers to Jail People For Own Protection
Why Are the Courts Sending Mentally Ill People to Prison?
New Data Shows 2021 Had Highest Number of Deaths in Prison Ever Recorded
Making Child Remand a last Resort
‘Unfit For Purpose’: Foster Care System Leaving Children Ripe for Exploitation
Reminder - You Are Invited to the Launch of JENGbA's Joint Enterprise Bill
Left Hanging - Imprisonment for Public Protection a Policy Without Supporters
Ill-Treatment of Detainees Who Had Been Interned in the 1970s
CPS Proposes New Guidance on 'Mercy Killings'
Prisoners Need a Social Life
Longer Prison Sentences Have Failed to Improve Public Confidence
It’s Not What You Promise that Matters - But What You Deliver
“Disappointing’ Progress in Work to Keep Women Out of Prison”
Link Between Homelessness and Reoffending For Women Leaving Prison
CPS Denies Suggestion it Shrinks Fonts to Reduce Page Count
Informing the Struggle for Racial Justice - Institute of Race Relations
Intervene Project: Providing Representation for the Abandoned
Damages for Man Held in Prison for 21 Months
Decriminalisation of Cannabis Possession Needed to Tackle Disproportionate Policing
Covid Prosecutions One in Three Wrongly Brought
Jury Foreman Sentenced Over Internet Research
Nevzlin v. Russia: Trial in Absentia and Conviction Violation of Article 6 ECtHR
Want to Build Trust in the Police? Detain Less Children
Troubles: Police 'Failed To Warn Murder Victims About Threats'
Prisoners Rebel Against Lockdown Rules
Governor HMP Wormwood Scrubs Arrested Over Corruption Claims
Scottish Conservatives Demand Withdrawal of Prisoners’ Phones
18,000 People Have Been Fined For Doing What Boris Johnson Did
EU Citizens Fighting Deportation Keep Full Residence Rights
HMP Styal: Prisoner Who Had Stillborn Baby 'Will Never Forgive Jail'
Failures in Support Before the Death of Young Asylum Seeker Alexander Tekle
Inquest Into Death of Nathan Forrester at HMP Thameside
Digital Evidence in Criminal Cases can ‘Obscure Rather than Illuminate’
Colston Four and ‘The Right Side Of History’
In the UK, Ageism is the Most Prevalent Form of Discrimination
Use of Secondary Legislation ‘Dangerous for Democracy’
HMP Wandsworth - Population Increase Threatens Progress In Troubled Prison
Dalian Atkinson: Police Apologise for Killing Black Ex-Footballer
Asylum Seekers Subjected to ‘Dangerous’ Use Of Force by Guards at Brook House IRC
Legislation From 2021 That Lessens Your Rights
Pardons Extended to All Abolished Same-Sex Crimes
CCRC Refers Conviction Due to Concerns About Prosecution Witness
Christmas in Prison and an Uncertain Year Ahead |