In October 2021, JUSTICE responded to the Department of Work and Pensions’ Shaping Future Support – The Health and Disability Green Paper consultation. The response drew upon the JUSTICE and AJC Reforming Benefits Decision-Making report, which looked at improving the administrative and procedural aspects of the benefits system to ensure the system works well for […]
Judicial Review and Courts Bill
October 12, 2021
JUSTICE has briefed on the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, ahead of the Bill’s second reading in the House of Commons. JUSTICE has several serious concerns with the impact of this wide-ranging Bill on access to justice and the rule of law, and has briefed on the judicial review, criminal procedure, online procedure rules and […]
Nationality and Borders Bill
September 23, 2021
JUSTICE, jointly with Public Law Project, has briefed Parliament on the Nationality and Borders Bill. Our briefings address specific changes which are needed within this Bill for effective access to justice and protection of the rule of law. We also highlight fundamental flaws in the overall approach of the Government to its purported aim of […]
JUSTICE remembers Jonathan Cooper OBE
September 20, 2021
Jonathan Cooper OBE was a stalwart of JUSTICE. Jonathan was our Human Rights Director and later Acting Assistant Director in the late 1990s and early 2000s, leading our work on the introduction of the Human Rights Act and the training of judges around it. Having gone on to become a leading light for equality, particularly […]
JUSTICE are hiring a new Chief Executive
August 20, 2021
Striving for a fair, accessible, and equal justice system. Our current Director, Andrea Coomber, is leaving after eight years. She has been instrumental in growing our membership, clarifying our strategic focus, and ensuring our financial viability. This means that our new CE is coming into a strongly performing and highly reputable organisation. It also means […]
Law Commission Consultation on 14th Programme of Law Reform
August 16, 2021
JUSTICE has responded to the Law Commission’s consultation on its 14th Programme of law reform. We provided our views on the ideas for the programme of work put forward by the Law Commission and which are relevant to JUSTICE’s own work. The Law Commission, like JUSTICE, carries out specialist law reform projects and we both […]
JUSTICE writes to the Prime Minister on establishing a COVID-19 inquiry fit for bereaved people and survivors
July 16, 2021
JUSTICE Working Party Chair Sir Robert Owen has today written to the Prime Minister to draw his attention to the JUSTICE report When Things Go Wrong: The response of the justice system and its recommendations. This follows the Prime Minister’s pledge to establish a statutory public inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]
JUSTICE and the Administrative Justice Council launch report on reforming the benefits system
July 8, 2021
The joint Administrative Justice Council and JUSTICE Working Party publishes its report Reforming Benefits Decision-Making, on 8 July 2021. It makes recommendations aimed at creating a benefits system that prioritises dignity and respect and places the user at its heart. The benefits decision-making system forms a huge part of the administrative justice landscape in the […]
Review of closed material procedure in the Justice and Security Act 2013
July 6, 2021
JUSTICE has responded to the Government’s statutory review of closed material procedure (CMP) under the Justice and Security Act 2013 (the JSA). CMP allows the state in litigation to disclose material which is sensitive to national security in closed procedures to the judge and a Special Advocate appointed to represent the other party’s interests, without […]
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
May 14, 2021
From overcrowded prisons to endemic racial disproportionality, there are many pressing issues across the criminal justice system which need comprehensive, urgent redress. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill purports to empower “the police and courts to take more effective action against crime and lead [to] a fair justice system.” While some of the aspects […]