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Media 2020
Beyond Reasonable Doubt?: David Morris and the Clydach Murders
CCRC Invites Proposals for New Justice Research Projects
Ahmed Mohammed Referred to CoA Following a Hit on National DNA Database
What Should Reparations For Slavery Look Like?
INQUEST Response to 147 Deaths in Police Custody
An Inspector’s Calls - Guardian View on Failing Jails
Sext Messages Do Not Equal ‘Blanket Consent’
Redress for ‘Historical’ Child Abuse in Care: What Can Scotland Learn From Ireland?
Irish Courts Now Tend Towards Admitting Evidence Obtained Unconstitutionally
Extending Custody Time Limit Will Hit BAME People Hardest
Police 999 Callouts to People Suffering Mental Health Crises Soar
Man Charged With Assault After Farting in a Taxi
Ultraviolence: the Shocking, Brutal Film About Deaths in Police Custody
Trials Listed for 2022 as Crown Court Backlog Approaches 50,000
4,393 Drug Deaths: Surge in Fatalities of Female Cocaine Users
‘Time’, the Shocking Film About a Family Torn Apart by the US Jail Industry
What Is the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill?
Court of Appeal Reject Police Attempts to Weaken Accountability For Use of Force
Death of Kevin Clarke: Serious failures by MET, London Ambulance Service, et al
NI: Pat Finucane Case Returns to Court Over UK Government Delay
Guardian View on Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Draw A Line
Law Society Urges Review to Protect Six Fundamental Principles of Judicial Review
Hooded Men: Permission to Appeal to the UK Supreme Court Granted
Northern Ireland: Prison Segregation Costs More Than £2m a Year
Collusion is Not an Illusion - It is State Murder
MPs Call For Resumption of Visits to Prisons and a Review of Immigration Detainees
Law Society Urges Review to Protect Six Fundamental Principles of Judicial Review
MPs Back Bill to Authorise Mi5 and Police Crimes
Overseas Operations Bill - Uniquely Reprehensible
MPs Call For Stricter Safeguards For Private Prosecutions
Covid Rules in Prisons Blocking Rehabilitation
Government Suffers Lords Defeats Over Immigration Bill
Thousands of Women Pointlessly Arrested Every Year, Say MPs
CCRC Refer Sexual Assault Conviction of Ahmed Mohammed
Deaths From Natural Causes in English and Welsh Prisons 'Unacceptably High'
Bloody Sunday Families Reject Decision to Charge Only One Soldier
Data Retention by Metropolitan Police Service of 16 Year-Old Child Unlawful
Proposed Deportation of Autistic Black Man Indictment of UK ’s Racist Justice System
Oliver Campbell Case: New Appeal Over 1990 Murder Conviction
Alarm Raised Over Police Detention of Vulnerable Suspects in England and Wales
Maghaberry Prison: Officer Injured During Demonstration in Support of Hunger Strikers
Communication, Education and Speech Difficulties in the Criminal Justice System
Brook House IRC Abuse Enquiry: Progress ‘Disappointing And Dispiriting’
New Rules for MI5 and Police to Authorise Crimes
Courts Relying on ‘Drill Music’ to Reinforce Racist Stereotypes
HMP Erlestoke – “Very Troubling” Safety, Decency, Purposeful activity, all Decline
Escaped UK Prisoner Tried to Hand Himself in Seven Times
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
Republican Prisoners Refusing Food At Maghaberry Prison
UK Banks Accused of Facilitating Fraudsters and Criminals
Terrorist Prisoners Hit Record High In British Jails Amid Warnings of Radicalisation
Women Who Accused Former Chief Constable of Bullying Given £1m
Doubts Cast on Fairness of Inquiry Into Reform of Judicial Review
Scottish Police Officers Lose Disciplinary Fight Over Racist Messages
HMP Hewell – 70% of Prisoners Reported Problems With Their Mental Health
Ireland: Voluntary Assisted Dying with Dignity Legislation to be Introduced
Justice for Oliver Campbell
Louisville to Pay Family $12m Over Police Shooting
Robert DuBoise Cleared of Rape and Murder Convictions After 37 Years in Jail
New Figures Show Criminal Court Backlog Has Surged Past 500,000
HMP Preston – Needed to Increase Pace of Recovery From Severe COVID-19 Restrictions
England's Criminal Justice System Was on its Knees Long Before Coronavirus
A Cowardly Decision’ to Extend Custody Time Limits
Scale of Failure in Prison System Staggering, Say MPs
Why We Need to Rethink the Way We Use ‘BAME’
Unconvicted: Custody Time Limit to be Increased to Ease Court Case Backlog in England
Police to Drop ‘Domestic Extremism’ Label to Describe Protest’s
Reforms to UK’s Antiquated Spying Laws
Exoneration for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: Lockerbie Bombing Appeal in November
Alec Smith, Conviction for Historic Indecent Assault Quashed
Relentless Rising Violence Inside Prisons in Honduras
Asylum-Seeker Deportation Flight Halted by Legal Challenge
Weight of Evidence Where Court Finds Serious Possibility it Was Obtained by Torture
What Decolonising the Curriculum Really Means
Guidance on Digital Records Held on Electronic Devices in Criminal Proceedings
Yarl's Wood IRC: Women no Longer Held as Centre Repurposed For Channel Migrants
Government’s Approach to Everything it Does: Make Deranged Choices and Watch Britain Burn
Ceon Broughton Conviction for Manslaughter Quashed
Continued Severe COVID Regime Restrictions Risk Psychological Decline in Prisoners
Direction Case’ Part One: Miller (Nos 1 and 2) in the National Security Context?
Direction Case Part Two: Doctrine of Necessary Implication and Uncertainty
UK: Successful Legal Challenge Against Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Loss of UK Prisoners' Rights is ihe Forgotten Injustice of the Covid-19 Crisis
Deprivation of Liberty Orders for Children and Young People Triples in Two Years
CCRC Refer Murder Convictions of Robert and Lee Firkins to Court Of Appeal
Protest Royal College of Psychiatrists Endorsing Prison Segregation Units
Chinese Court Clears Zhang Yuhuan of Murder After 27 Years in Prison
William Francis Jones Conviction Quashed
Rise in Care Children Being 'Deprived of Liberty'
Rebuttal of Rape Allegations
Bristol Prison Race Failings Led to Attack on Muslim Inmate
Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow Conviction for Manslaughter Quashed
High Court Provides Clarity On Third-Party Access To Court Documents
Police in England and Wales 'twice as Likely' to Fine Young BAME Men During Lockdown
Mohammed Zahir Khan v SSJ - Challenge to Early Release Regime
New Statistics on Deaths and Self-Harm Expose Perilous State of Prisons
Prisons: Challenges of an Ageing Inmate Population
Courts Carry Out ‘State Sanctioned Abuse’ Of Domestic Abuse Survivors
HMPS and Prison Officers Continue "Avoidable" Extreme Lock-Up for Young Offenders
English Judges Rule Lying About Fertility to Sexual Partner is Not Rape
Piti Patel’s Refusal to Grant Immigration Bail to FNOs - Ruled Unlawful
Children In Detention May Face Covid-19 Restrictions Until 2022
Courts Carry Out ‘State Sanctioned Abuse’ Of Domestic Abuse Survivors
HMPS and Prison Officers Continue "Avoidable" Extreme Lock-Up for Young Offenders
English Judges Rule Lying About Fertility to Sexual Partner is Not Rape
Priti Patel’s Refusal to Grant Immigration Bail to FNOs - Ruled Unlawful
Children In Detention May Face Covid-19 Restrictions Until 2022
Clearer Guidelines Issued For Sentencing Offenders With Mental Health Disorders
Parents of Man Who Died After Police Restraint Challenge Delay Over Seni's Law
Terrorism Act 2000 - 20 Years of Increased Racism, Repression and Injustice
Inspectors Concerned by Impact of Continued Covid-19 Regime Restrictions in Women's Prisons
No Jail Time for G4S Blatant Criminality
UK Undercover Police Officer Accused of Encouraging Activist to Buy Shotgun
Criminal Procedure Rules – Not Just for Decoration
The Non-Treatment Scandal and the ‘Hidden’ Victims of Covid-19
Trials for Sexual Offences Rules of Evidence
Benjamin Bestgen: Twenty-first Century Lie Detection – Part Two
Why we Cannot Tell if a Witness is Telling the Truth
Denial of Women's Concerns Contributed to Decades of Medical Scandals
MoJ Accused of Undermining Independence of CCRC and ‘Clipping its Wings’
Thousands of High-Risk Offenders in UK 'Freed Into Homelessness'
Remember With ‘Pride’ the Stonewall Riots
Trial Collapses of Three Britons Accused of Aiding Man to go to Fight In Syria
MoJ Accused of Undermining Independence of CCRC and ‘Clipping its Wings’
Council of Europe: New Guidance to Prison Services on Humane Treatment of Inmates
ECHR: Forced Prostitution Covered by Article 4
UK Intelligence Torture Case to be Held in Secret After Challenge Fails
Quality of Legal Advice For Suspects “Faltering Under Lockdown”
Challenge Concerning Lack of Safeguards for Immigration Detainees in Prison
Move to Ban the ’50 Shades of Grey’ Defence
Reimagining the Law: Transcribing injustice
Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill
UK ‘Black Lives Matter’ - Taking Legal Action to Combat Police Brutality
Warnings and Lessons for Conspiracy Cases
Obligations Relating to Electronic Records/Devices Held by Prosecution Witnesses
Open Prisons During Corona – Frustration at Continued Suspension of Release To Work
Black
Man Paralysed After Being Tasered by Police Vows to Get
Justice
Fast-Track Injustice and the �Racist-Effect� on the Right to
Protest
Life-changing� Settlement For
Rape Victim Failed by Police
Children Facing �Endless
Delays� in Justice System Convicted as Adults
Hard Truths About Long-Standing
Failings In The Family Justice System
Pain-Inducing Restraint in
Child Custody Must be Exception
Death of Baby in Cheshire Prison Prompts Investigation
Barrow Rape Claims Trial Faces
Long Delay Due to Coronavirus Backlog
Loughinisland Murders: Police
Watchdog 'Overstepped Mark' - So What!
Equality and Human Rights
Commission (EHRC) Reports on Inclusive Justice
UK Government Responded to
Black Lives Matter � by Protecting Statues
France: Children Face
Abusive, Racist Police Stops
'Unrealistic' Appeals System
Fails Prisoners Who Have Been Victims of Abuse
UK Government Responded to
Black Lives Matter � by Protecting Statues
Barriers Faced by Women
Seeking to Appeal Criminal Convictions and Sentencing
Criminal Justice System
Failing Disabled Defendants
Whitehall Held Secret Review
Into 15 Possible Cases of Torture or Rendition
Investigation
Into Black Man's Death In Torquay Police Cell
Charles
Bronson Wins First Step in Fight For Public Parole Hearing
A Black Man�s Life Not Valued�:
Attack on Year-Long Delay of UK Police Death Inquiry
Self-Harm Increases Among
Female Prisoners In England During Pandemic
Jeremy Bamber Refused Access to
Documents on Essex Family Murders
166 MP's From All Parties Call
For UK to Stop Teargas and Rubber Bullet Exports to US
Serco Wins Covid-19
Test-And-Trace Contract Despite �1m Fine
Anthony Grainger: Police
Misconduct Case Over Shooting Collapses
Race, Injustice, and Innocence
on Death Row: Interview With Ndume Olatushani
One Kingdom 4 Nations Emerging
From Lockdown at 4 Different Rates Under 4 Different Laws
NI:
Around 200 People Interned in 1970s Bring Legal Proceedings
After Adams Ruling
�Cruel and Unnecessary�:
Immigration Detention During the Pandemic
Lockerbie Bombing: Megrahi
Lawyers Seek To Quash Conviction
Safeguards
Over Deprivations of Liberty Are �Indispensable� to Frail And
Vulnerable
�Sobriety
Tags� are Now in Force
Poverty
and Debt Driving Young Women to Self-Harm
Shrewsbury
24: CCRC Refers Ricky Tomlinson and Five Ors to Court of
Appeal
Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison No Longer Fit for Purpose
�I
Won�t Stop Until I Die�: David Nash�s Dying Declaration of
Innocence
HMP/YOI
Drake Hall (Women Only) � Intimidation, Bullying,
Victimisation, Drug Use Rife
Government
Responds To �Anthony Grainger Inquiry�
Government
to Extend Their Powers to �Terrorise�
Watering Down Children's
Rights
NI: Domestic Abuse Crimes
Reach 15-Year High
CCRC
Forced to Refer Murder Conviction of Gary Walker to CoA
Why Are
Pregnant Women In Prison?
Sentencing
Sexual Cases with a Fake Victim
Impact of
a Custodial Sentence Likely to be Heavier During Current
Emergency Than It Would be Otherwise
Making
Defendants State Nationality Is 'Racialising' UK Courts
Government
Not Doing Enough to Prevent Crimes Committed on Probation
French People Aiding
Undocumented Migrants Cannot be Prosecuted for �Crimes of
Solidarity
UK Supreme Court Quashes
Gerry Adams' Maze Escape Convictions
Sadiq Khan Warns of
Coronavirus Crime Rise if Poverty Not Tackled
Refusal
to Let Prisoner Observe His Muslim Faith Violation of Article
9
Justice Systems Must Help
Children Overcome Fear and Trauma, Not Make Them Worse
Households Worse Off On
Universal Credit Win Court of Appeal Test Case
Prisoner
Mohammed Zahir Khan Wins First Round In Challenge To Terrorism
Law
Kevin
Artt Maze Prison Escapee Has Convictions Quashed
Video Hearings �More
Likely to Lead to Convictions�
Dying Surrounded by Family
'A Fundamental Right' Says UK Judge
Application for Reduction
in Tariff Succeeds - 14 Years Reduced to 12 Years 10
Months
Detained
in a Mental Health Institution Rather Than Prison
Following Sentencing
�To
Ask Defendants to Choose Trial by Judge is Not Unreasonable
Sex Workers Struggle to Survive Covid-19 Pandemic
Imposition of Notification Requirements on Sexual Offenders
Compatible With Article 8
Article 2 Duties to Investigate Government�s Response to the
Corona Pandemic
UK Prison Officers
Guilty of Punching Compliant Inmates
Obina
Ezeoke to Face Fifth Trial Over Same Murder Charges
Global Prison Population
Passes 11 Million As Covid-19 Spreads
Convicted Terrorists
Less Likely To Reoffend Than Other Criminals
Whatever
Happened to Investigative Journalism?
Is An Offence Under
Section 13(1) Terrorism Act 2000 A Strict Liability Offence?
Release of Prisoners
Alteration of Relevant Proportion of Sentence
Parole
Hearings - Unproven Allegations Can and Should be Heard
Care Proceedings Rise Steeply in Family Courts During UK
Lockdown
Ben Geen: Statisticians
Back Former Nurse�s in Last Chance to Clear Name
Guildford Bombings: Cover up Extended for Another 100 Years!
Discharged UK Prisoners
With Covid-19 Symptoms Given Travel Warrants
Woman �Loitering� at Train
Station Wrongfully Convicted In Shambolic Case
Coronavirus
Situation in English and Welsh Prisons
Robin Garbutt to Challenge
Murder Conviction for Third Time
Alex Salmond � His Faith In Our
Justice System!
Concerns Raised After PPS fail to
Direct PSNI to Reopen UVF killing
Hague Court Orders Dutch State to
Pay Out Over Colonial Massacres
Torture
and 'Bribery': Extradition of Manchester Bomber's Brother
Met Police Officers �Shredded
Documents Linked to Undercover Policing Inquiry�
Secret Policy Change by CPS Cut
Number of Rape Trials
Right to Silence in Cases of
Contempt
Law
in the Time of Coronavirus
Mandatory
Polygraph Tests - For Convicted Terrorists
Six
Police Officers to be Investigated Over Shooting of Anthony
Grainger in 2012
Multiple
Failures Contributed to Death of Dean George at HMP Swansea
CCRC
Slammed by Court of Appeal for Unreasonable Delay
Shrewsbury
24 pickets case referred to the Court of Appeal
Requiem
for Charlotte Nokes and All IPP Prisoners and Their Families
An
Immigration Decision Based Upon a Prior Unlawful Decision is
Itself Also Unlawful
Death
of IPP Prisoner Charlotte Nokes Seven Years Over Original
Tariff
Neglect
and Gross Failures Contributed to Death of Prince Fosu in
Immigration Detention
NI:
Lawyers for Man Shot by British Army Condemn 'Attempted
Political Intervention'
USA:
Police Officer Arrested for Murder Accused of Framing 69
John
Bowden: Parole Hearing was Positive - Waiting for MOJ to Sign
it Off!
Bad
Law: Consequences & Recommendations
Jeremy
Bamber Lawyers Say New Evidence Undermines Conviction
HMYOI
Cookham Wood - Not Safe for Children - Serious Levels of
Violence
�10,000
Damages for Failure to Investigate Allegations of Domestic
Violence
Permission
Given to Challenge Retention of Prostitution Convictions
School
Agrees �8.5k Settlement to Pupil Excluded Over Size of Afro
Hair Do
Imposing
Curfew on a Person Subject To Deportation - Unlawful and False
Imprisonment
Permission
Given to Challenge Retention of
Prostitution Convictions
Article
6 Breaches no Magic Bullet for Convictions
on Appeal
Bloody
Sunday: Court Rejects MoD's Appeal Against
Compensation
Man
Who Fought London Bridge Attacker
Decries Longer Jail Terms
Has
Anyone at the CCRC Got the Time, Please?
Deaths
In Prison at Historically High Levels as Self-Harm
Levels Reach New Records
Criminal
Record Checks System Still Broken
Use
of Taser by Devon and Cornwall Police Contributed to
Death of Marc Cole
White
Men Still Dominate Judiciary, Says Justice Report
Challenging a Broken Justice System
Challenging
a Broken Justice System
John
Bowden: The Only Ones Who Can Tell the Truth
"Secret
Justice�: An Oxymoron and the Overdue 'Closed Procedures'
Review
Convicted
Drug Dealer�s Attempt to Clear Name Fails
Glyn
Maddocks Appointed Honorary Queen�s Counsel
Can
a Person Go Back to The Court Of Appeal, if An Initial
Appeal Has Been Dismissed!
Sheku
Bayoh Killed by Police: Former Judge to Head Public
Inquiry
Deaths
In Prison at Historically High Levels as Self-Harm
Levels Reach New Records
Criminal Record Checks System Still Broken
Use of Taser by Devon and Cornwall Police
Contributed to Death of Marc Cole
White Men Still Dominate Judiciary, Says Justice
Report Challenging a Broken Justice System
UK
High Court Rules Gypsies/Travellers Have 'Enshrined Freedom'
to Move From Place to Place
Courtrooms
Lie Empty as Trial Delays Increase
Release
of
Prisoners (Alteration of Relevant Proportion of Sentence)
Criminalising
the Possession of �Terrorist Propaganda�: A Human Rights
Analysis
Wang Yam Knocked Back by European Court of Human Rights
Prison Staff Misconduct
Investigations Rise By Third
Minorities More Likely to
Be Jailed for Drug Dealing
Sunlight is the Best
Disinfectant for our Ailing Justice System
Alleged Rape Victim
Awarded �15k Over PSNI Failings
Staff Shortages Leave
Probation Service In Crisis, Report Finds
Police Reject Judge's Call
To Apologise Over Wrongful Conviction of Paul Blackburn
Prison Staff Misconduct
Investigations Rise By Third
Police Officer Jailed for
Lying About Uxbridge Child Sex Assault
Home Office Overhauls
Police Complaints and Discipline Process
Serious Crime Victims Wait
Longer for Justice After Court Days Cut
CPS Still Plagued by
Disclosure Failings, Watchdog Finds
Miscarriages
of Justice: Compensation
Bronzefield
Prison: Maternity Services: Written Question
Investigation After
Liridon Saliukar Found Dead in Cell at Belmarsh
In Our Secret Family
Courts, Judges Still Don�t Understand What Rape Means
Man, 81, Seeks to Quash
Conviction for Apartheid Protest
Four Days to Comply with
New Money Laundering Rules
Inmates Missing After
Deadly Riots at Mississippi Prison
Case Management and Expert
Evidence
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