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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Good work by his solicitor, as well as the Criminal Cases Review Commission, to get justice for this professional driver who, the police’s own dashcam evidence showed, had not committed the alleged offence.
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You will be aware that I consistently campaign for victims and survivors. Last week I pressed the Minister @AlexDaviesJones for confirmation that she will deliver on her commitments to giving victims access to transcripts allowing them clarity in the justice process. Watch here:
#newsround: Housing for women leaving prison discussed in webinar https://insidetime.org/newsround/housing-for-women-leaving-prison-discussed-in-webinar
New powers to tackle public sexual harassment mark a notable policy shift – but their impact will depend on how consistently they are applied, enforced, and experienced in practice.
“It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path, our long-term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union,” PM Keir Starmer says
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At No.10, New Futures Network brought together over 100 businesses to recognise their role in helping prison leavers into work — reducing reoffending and building safer communities.
👇 Here’s what Morrisons, Greene King and others had to say:
NPCC Statement on use of self swabbing after rape and serious sexual assault
Thanks @LucyCavColl for your support with our #Groundbreakers film preview @ChuArchives with our chair @JackieAshley #womeninpolitics #breakingbarriers
Hi @VeraBaird the premier of our #Groundbreakers film @ChuArchives went well! Some nice posts about it including @LucyCavColl president Girish & @JackieAshley the chair. Here’s our short trailer. Do RT.
We have referred a second Post Office ‘Capture’ conviction to the Court of Appeal. You can read more here 👉
#Appeal #miscarriagesofjustice
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
