Chair Criminal Cases Review Commission. Member Women’s Justice Bd.
Ex Victims’ Commissioner, Solicitor Gen & PCC. Fellow St Hilda’s Oxford. Writer. Labour Party
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Laurence O’Neill: Convictions quashed for man (82) who was ‘tortured in barracks’ – #GoogleAlerts
A man’s 1972 convictions for possession of ammunition and explosives were quashed yesterday by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal following a reference from the CCRC.
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Today marks a major step forward for workers’ rights.
Unions can now spend more time fighting for better jobs, better pay, and better conditions – after most of the Tories’ Trade Union Act is repealed.
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Deputy Prime Minister sets out vision for the justice system – – https://goo.gl/alerts/UyC4o3 #GoogleAlerts
Highest ever courts funding deal agreed to deliver faster, fairer justice for victims – – https://goo.gl/alerts/1xgKse #GoogleAlerts
.@DavidLammy is to face down Labour rebels next week by pressing full steam ahead with his controversial plans to curb jury trials @sarahsackman @TheCriminalBar @thebarcouncil @TheLawSociety @JamesDRossiter @DannyShawNews @CourtsIdle @Court_Stats @NJ_Timothy @CPhilpOfficial
‘Wrongly-convicted men denied compensation’
Inside Time reports the All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice last week.
We heard from wrongly convicted people, some of whom will get compensation & some not.
Hugely unfair
https://goo.gl/alerts/GzTeju #GoogleAlerts
‘UK court dismisses legal challenge to Met Police Freemason disclosure policy’
All forces should now adopt this, to limit the secret power of this sexist, self-promoting brotherhood.
Better still would be banning it from policing all together
Police need to investigate Andrew, says former victims’ commissioner – BBC – #GoogleAlerts
Clumsy drafting of the Sentencing Bill may increase the number of women sent to prison Earlier this year, David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review was published making a range of recommendations aimed at reducing the size of the prison population, which has caused alarming overcrowding. However, there is a big problem for women with its interpretation
Rianna Cleary, an 18-year-old care leaver, was pregnant when she was remanded to prison, on a charge of robbery. She went into labour when locked in her cell, and, though she rang desperately for help, nobody came. When she rang a second time, the officers turned her bell off. She gave birth to baby Aisha,
Prosecuting perpetrators for manslaughter when domestic abuse leads to suicide In January, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) failed in the manslaughter prosecution of Ryan Wellings, a domestic abuser, whose victim, Kiena Dawes, killed herself. It was only thethird prosecution of this kind that the CPS had ever attempted, and they have lost two. That is
Our criminal justice system imprisons twice as many women now, as it did in the nineties. No increase in the quantity or gravity of female crime has happened, to justify this. Harsh penal policy, directed at tougher sentencing for men – who are 96% of the prison population – seems simply to have carried women
