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.
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A seventh inmate has died in a two month period at a Welsh Prison. HMP Parc, near Bridgend, has seen a drastic increase in deaths of prisoners, with the latest due to be investigated by the prisons ombudsman. 47 year old Wayne Hay died at the prison on Tuesday As previously reported by Justice Gap ..read more
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A Guardian report has revealed that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is using interns to trawl for potential miscarriages of justice in their files following the exoneration of Andy Malkinson. The body, which is tasked with overturning wrongful convictions, recently announced that they were undertaking a forensic trawling exercise to identify similar cases ..read more
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The prison watchdog has told MPs they are putting plans on hold to build more prison spaces for women. This decision is reportedly due to ‘fiscal challenges’ arising from ‘high levels of inflation,’ which means taking the ‘responsible approach’ to pausing plans to build whilst considering the impact of these pressures. The plans had sought ..read more
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Civil servants may be able to bring legal action against the government over objections to the Rwanda asylum scheme. The FDA, a trade union representing some civil service workers, is suing the government over the plans. They claim a direction to send asylum seekers to Rwanda would breach international law, which would leave workers in ..read more
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Police and prosecutors were relying on rap lyrics and videos in court to do the ‘heavily lifting’ in ‘gang’ prosecutions against young black men and boys for crimes in which many played ‘no significant role’, according to a new review which also highlights the misuse of joint enterprise. A new study (Compound Injustice) drew on ..read more
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Recent high-profile miscarriages of justice like the Post Office Scandal and Andy Malkinson, whose rape conviction was quashed after serving 17 years in prison, should remind us that sending innocent people to prison is a reality of today’s criminal justice system. While rare, there are many reasons why a jury will return the wrong verdict ..read more
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An inquest has found that the death of a prisoner was an unlawful killing, laying blame on the gross negligence of prison officers, the charity INQUEST reports. This is believed to be the first time a self-inflicted death in prison has been found to be an unlawful killing. Robert Fenlon, 36, died of self-inflicted injuries ..read more
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After 12 years in prison on an indeterminate IPP sentence, a father has been reunited with his 14-year-old son. Thomas White received an IPP sentence with a two-year minimum tariff in 2012 for stealing a mobile phone, he has been languishing in prison ever since despite the discredited sentence being abolished four months after he was ..read more
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New research reveals that murderers are now getting ‘substantially increased’ minimum prison sentences fuelling a trend of sentence inflation across other serious crimes, such as manslaughter and sexual offences. According to the report by the Sentencing Academy written by Dr Richard Martin of LSE, average minimum terms for murder have soared from 13 years in ..read more
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The Metropolitan Police have paid a five-figure settlement in a claim pursued by a French publisher for misfeasance in a public office and false imprisonment, the Guardian reports. The left-wing publisher, Ernest Moret, was stopped by counter-terrorism police officers in April 2023 on arriving at London via the Eurostar. Officers questioned Mr Moret on anti-government ..read more