Surveillance Reform for a Digital Age In this new major report, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, JUSTICE calls for a fundamental overhaul of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in order to protect the right of individual privacy from unnecessary, unwarranted and unchecked state intrusion. Press Release, Suveillance Reform for a Digital Age […]

JUSTICE, along with Amnesty International, ECBA, OSJI, Irish Council for Civil Liberties and FTI, has written an open letter to Justice Ministers across Europe emphasising the importance of enacting the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the rights of access to a lawyer and of notification of custody to a third person […]

Press Release, Baha Mousa

Only days after the UK announced that it would opt in to a proposed EU law on the rights of victims of crime to ensure that Britons in another EU country will get a guaranteed level of support, the Justice Secretary has tabled a motion for debate in Parliament on 7 September on the Government’s […]

The UK Supreme Court today ruled decisively against the use of secret evidence in civil trials without parliamentary authorisation. JUSTICE was granted leave to intervene before the UK Supreme Court in both Deghayes and Tariq in a joint intervention with Liberty. JUSTICE has published a press release in response to the judgment. Press Release, Secret […]

In two groundbreaking rulings, the European Court of Human Rights today confirmed that the UK government’s human rights obligations are not limited to the territorial UK but can exceptionally extend overseas to situations in which British officials exercise ‘control and authority’ over foreign nationals. JUSTICE has published a press release in response to the judgment. […]

JUSTICE response to procedure rules announced today by the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke concerning the forthcoming Detainee Inquiry. The rules are likely to breach UK and international standards for investigating allegations of torture. Press Releases, Torture Inquiry

Press release relating to JUSTICE’s intervention in Cart v Upper Tribunal and Eba v Advocate General. On 22 June the UK Supreme Court ruled that decisions of the Upper Tribunal are not immune from judicial review by the High Court in England or the Court of Session in Scotland. It also unanimously rejected the government’s argument that judicial review should only […]

JUSTICE today expressed its concern at the legal aid reforms announced by the government and contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Press Releases, Legal aid reform

Press Release, Scottish appeals