The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
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The site is run by Jon Robins. Jon is a journalist and has written about the law and justice for the national papers and specialist press for 15 years. Jon won the Bar Council's legal reporter of the year award in 2015.
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
3d ago
The police watchdog has removed a controversial, pseudoscientific term from response forms after criticism that it increased police brutality. So-called ‘excited delirium’ has previously been listed a relevant factor in police intervening in an incident, but evidence shows it has been disproportionately used to label men from ethnic minorities. The, now rejected, term has particularly ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
3d ago
The segregation unit at Bedford prison is to close down following a threat of legal action over concerns about squalid conditions. The Howard League for Penal Reform last month sent a letter threatening to judicially review the secretary of state for justice if he continued to place people in the segregation unit at Bedford ‘given the ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
3d ago
REVIEW: The new Channel Four documentary series Defiance: Fighting the Far Right needed to be aired as a lot of youngsters are unaware of the struggles that British Asians and Blacks faced and how they stood up to the far right. The programme uses archive footage and newspaper headlines to bring the reality across to ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
4d ago
The lawyer who represented the Birmingham Six told a packed meeting in parliament that history had repeated itself with the wrongful conviction of four young Muslim men in 2017. Gareth Peirce was speaking at the launch of the sixth issue of PROOF magazine on Tuesday night in packed committee room in the House of Commons ..read more
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4d ago
Andy Malkinson has criticised an apology from the head of the miscarriage of justice watchdog as ‘too little too late’. Malkinson was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years for a rape he did not commit and had his conviction overturned nine months ago. The failures of the head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to adequately ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
6d ago
This week the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) announced it will re-examine almost 5,500 previously rejected cases to see if DNA breakthroughs can be made. This represents a significant step forward for those of us who know that the statutory miscarriage of justice review body has denied justice to scores of wrongly convicted individuals, of ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
1w ago
‘A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don’t have to, and never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.’ This was the advice of permanent secretary Sir Humphrey Applebey in the 1980s satirical political sitcom Yes Minister, in response to the Prime Minister explaining ..read more
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1w ago
The miscarriage of justice watchdog is considering reopening the cases of almost 5,500 people convicted of murder or rape whose applications the group had previously turned down. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is currently the subject of two separate reviews following the furore over of the quashing of the conviction of Andrew Malkinson and ..read more
The Justice Gap - Know Your Rights
1w ago
A new issue of the Justice Gap magazine PROOF is out on Monday shining a light on our broken criminal appeals system. PROOF issue 6 features a series of long read articles on a number of shocking and unresolved cases including the Birmingham Four, the Manchester 10, Oliver Campbell and Jason Moore. The issue features ..read more
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1M ago
Six months after the Brook House inquiry was concluded, the government has dismissed its crucial recommendation of setting a time limit on detaining immigrants The inquiry was intended to prevent the recurrence of the inhumane treatment suffered by migrants at the scandal-hit Brook House immigration centre. This inquiry, in which the Home Office was the ..read more