This free event is invite only. Please contact scotland@justice.org.uk if you have not been invited but would like to attend.
We are expanding our legal team
May 17, 2017
We have a new staff vacancy for a Lawyer focussed on strengthening the criminal justice stream of our work. This provides an exciting opportunity for a practising lawyer with a strong research background or an academic lawyer to engage in high-level policy and law reform work. In February 2016 JUSTICE launched Complex and Lengthy Criminal […]
JUSTICE publishes ‘pocket guide’ for Scottish lawmakers
May 10, 2017
As the makers of our laws, as our representatives, and in holding the Scottish Government to account, MSPs wear many hats. To support them in this, JUSTICE has published a new report, Law for Scottish lawmakers: A JUSTICE guide to the law. The report, an update of our 2015 Westminster focussed publication Law For lawmakers, […]
Increasing judicial diversity is vital to a fairer justice system – a JUSTICE working party gives its recommendations
April 25, 2017
Despite the diverse make-up of the United Kingdom, our senior judiciary is dominated by white and privately educated men. The new JUSTICE report, Increasing judicial diversity, explores the structural barriers faced by women, people from visible ethnic minorities and those from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds in reaching the bench. The report explains why diversity is a vital […]
Increasing Judicial Diversity
In April 2017, JUSTICE published its report Increasing judicial diversity which explores the structural barriers faced by women, people from visible ethnic minorities and those from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds in reaching the bench. The report explains why diversity is a vital constitutional issue, calls for systemic changes to increase accountability and improve recruitment processes, and proposes […]
Belhaj & Another v Straw & Others [2017] UKSC 3 | Rahmutallah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence & Another [2017] UKSC 3
April 6, 2017
FACTS The two joined appeals concern alleged UK involvement in breaches of human rights by foreign governments. Mr Belhaj was an opposition commander during the 2011 Libyan armed conflict and is now leader of the Libyan Al-Watan Party. In 2004, Mr Belhaj and his pregnant wife Mrs Boudchar attempted to fly from Beijing to London […]
Prisons and Courts Bill: JUSTICE briefing
JUSTICE has produced a briefing on the Prisons and Courts Bill for the Second Reading. It addresses our initial concerns over the written and online processes created by Part 2, and the changes proposed to the judiciary and the Judicial Appointments Commission in Parts 3 and 4: For Part 2, there are a number of principles […]
What can be done about judicial diversity?
April 3, 2017
Ideas for achieving better diversity in the senior judiciary of England and Wales were discussed at a panel event, organised by the London Solicitors Litigation Association and JUSTICE, on Monday 20 March. In the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court there are only two judges who are from non-white ethnic minority groups, and only around […]
JUSTICE response: Reforming the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme
March 8, 2017
In March 2017, JUSTICE responded to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on reform of the funding scheme which pays advocates to defend clients in the Crown Court. The manner in which defence advocates are remunerated for cases involving mentally vulnerable defendants comes within the work of our Working Party on Mental Health and Fair Trial. […]
Apply for the JUSTICE Spring externship programme
February 28, 2017
JUSTICE invites applications for our Spring 2017 externship programme. This is an unpaid remote-working internship, lasting up to 6 weeks with a total commitment of 10 – 15 hours. The successful applicants will work remotely on a research project looking at digitising the existing court and tribunal model in the UK and will be supervised […]