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
2d 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
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1w ago
Six prisoners have died at one Welsh prison in the last 22 days. Two deaths were reported at HMP Parc in Bridgend on 27 February and since then four more men have died. The prison’s watchdog has launched a probe into all six deaths. Neither G4S, the private contractor responsible for the prison, nor the ..read more
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1w ago
Black prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs are subject to disproportionate use of force, an annual report has revealed. The IMB report found that black prisoners were subjected to 43% of use-of-force incidents despite only making up 27% of the number of prisoners in Wormwood scrubs. In contrast, white and asian prisoners were subjected to 25% and ..read more
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1w ago
Nicholas Bidar, a prisoner serving an indefinite IPP sentence (imprisonment for public protection) has made a public bid for parole. In his plea for parole, Bidar told the parole board ‘I’m not that person’ anymore, and ‘Every day feels like torture. I struggle daily to get through the day.’ IPP sentences, which were abolished 2012 ..read more
Use of disputed medical terms may ‘deflect attention’ in deaths following police restraint in the UK
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1w ago
A recent investigation by the Observer has revealed widespread use of disputed medical terms, ‘Acute Behavioural Disturbance’ (ABD) and ‘Excited Delirium,’ in explaining deaths following police restraint incidents in the UK. Further concerns have been raised about the disproportionate application of these terms to black individuals, exacerbating existing inequalities in the use of coercive measures ..read more
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1w ago
The government has released a new definition of extremism which has been described by rights groups as ‘deeply cynical and completely unworkable’. Announcing the move, Michael Gove said it is necessary to meet the increasing threat from extremist ideologies. Groups who satisfy the definition will be excluded from engaging with, and receiving funding from government ..read more
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1w ago
The Ministry of Justice has announced a delay in implementing certain reforms to the legal aid means test until 2026, signalling the government’s further neglect of the justice system. The President of the Law Society, Nick Emmerson, said this was evidence of the government’s ‘consistent refusal’ to allocate resources to an ailing justice system. One ..read more
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2w ago
An inquiry into the actions of the notorious corrupt British Transport Police Officer, Derek Ridgewell, has been criticised for running to just nine pages. The Mirror obtained a copy of the report by the Force which has been described as ‘flawed’, and fails to reckon with the extent of Ridgewell’s crimes. Many documents that ..read more
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2w ago
Long-trailed legislation to quash the wrongful convictions of hundreds of post office operators involved in the Post Office Scandal has now been published ahead of a parliamentary debate The Post Office (Horizon System) Offence Bill will automatically quash convictions where during the period 1996-2018, a Post Office employee was convicted of an offence relating to ..read more
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2w ago
The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £10,000 in damage to a protestor detained overnight following the Sarah Everard Vigil. During the Vigil in Clapham in March 2021, Edmunds had been detained overnight and charged with breaching Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. The charges against Edmunds were dropped 15 months after her arrest, and she subsequently sued ..read more