The Renters Rights’ Bill, introduced in September 2024, proposes reform to the private rented sector. This briefing addresses the Bill in advance of its Second Reading in the House of Commons. JUSTICE welcomes many aspects of the legislation, including: However, JUSTICE considers improvement is required for the Bill to achieve its objectives and facilitate all […]
JUSTICE Annual General Meeting 2024
September 18, 2024
The JUSTICE 2024 AGM will be held on 16 October 2024 at 5.30pm the meeting will be held in-person this year, with the option to join virtually if you are unable to join in-person. At the AGM, all members are eligible to vote to appoint the Chair and Council members, who are nominated by the Board. Details are included in our AGM Notice which can be found […]
JUSTICE Financial Report 2024
September 17, 2024
Rising rents make housing dispute system reforms more urgent
August 29, 2024
The Office for National Statistics has just released its yearly update for private rental properties, showing an average annual increase in rent of 8.6% in England. This comes after Government data estimates over 21% of privately rented properties in England fail to meet the ‘Decent Homes Standard’. This makes for an unsafe and unfair environment […]
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
March 26, 2024
JUSTICE has briefed Parliament on several discrete issues within the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Firstly, JUSTICE has briefed on automated decision-making. Clause 14 of the Bill repeals the right not to be subject to solely automated decision making and profiling, replacing it with more permissive provisions. JUSTICE does not consider the new provisions […]
Time Better Spent: Improving Decision-making in Prisons
March 21, 2024
Ease prison crisis with Norwegian-style queueing system, finds JUSTICE report A Norwegian-style queueing system and other key reforms could ease the UK’s prison overcrowding crisis and reduce reoffending, a new report by JUSTICE finds. The report warns that such reforms are urgently needed to avoid a repeat of the widespread prison riots of the 1990s. […]
Ongoing problems with EU settlement scheme affecting millions
March 13, 2024
Ongoing problems with the scheme designed to secure eligible European Economic Area (‘EEA’) nationals their rights to live and work in the UK after Brexit are putting millions of people at risk of wrongly losing their jobs, homes, and access to healthcare and benefits, a new report finds. Continuing problems with the scheme’s online ‘proof […]
Building the infrastructure for a fair, accessible justice system
March 8, 2024
New JUSTICE-led project, funded by the Access to Justice Foundation, to explore options for harnessing data and evidence to improve justice policy and practice. JUSTICE have commissioned Dr Natalie Byrom to identify options for a new initiative to enable policymakers and practitioners to harness data and evidence to build a fairer justice system within everyone’s […]
Review of Civil Legal Aid
March 5, 2024
In January 2023, the Ministry of Justice launched a Review of Civil Legal Aid, setting out its proposals to improve the system’s ability to deliver long-term access to justice. JUSTICE has responded to the Ministry of Justice’s call for evidence. In doing so, we have drawn upon our previous work, including our reports on Solving […]
New guide to help evidence the role of racism in state-custody deaths
February 21, 2024
A new guide released today (21/2/24) provides lawyers representing families bereaved by deaths in police custody, prisons, immigration detention, and mental health settings with the legal expertise to raise the potential role of race and racism at inquests. It also provides foundational knowledge and strategy to coroners to ensure they satisfy their duty in fully […]