In April 2018, JUSTICE launched its report Supporting Exonerees: Ensuring Accessible, Consistent and Continuing Support at White & Case LLP in London. The report highlights the inadequacy of the compensation regime. The compensation award is capped and the application process is burdensome and complex. Furthermore, changes to legislation have created a higher threshold test and […]
The ‘neither confirm nor deny’ (NCND) response
February 22, 2018
In March 2017, JUSTICE hosted a roundtable at University College London with practitioners, experts and academics on the ‘neither confirm nor deny’ (NCND) response. The NCND response is most often used by public authorities in the national security and law enforcement contexts to avoid revealing sensitive information. It may, for example, be used in response […]
Innovations in personally-delivered advice: surveying the landscape
February 21, 2018
JUSTICE has written a new report entitled Innovations in personally-delivered advice: surveying the landscape (January 2018). The report is available here. In summary, the report briefly surveys the landscape post-LASPO – looking at innovative projects and practices in personally-delivered civil legal advice. We assess whether these are effective, efficient and ethical. The three sections of the report are: prioritising user convenience; […]
Investigation of police ill-treatment in Europe
June 20, 2017
JUSTICE has taken part in an EU-wide project on ill treatment by police officers. The report, published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, is a comparative study of seven EU countries, funded by the Open Society Foundations. JUSTICE authored the England and Wales research, which is summarised in the main comparative report. Evidence suggests that law […]
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, […]
To Assist the Court: Third Party Interventions in the Public Interest
June 22, 2016
It is an old saying that there are at least two sides to every case. A question for the courts is what happens when there are more than two? Over the past four decades, in a range of legally and constitutionally significant matters – from the treatment of children in detention to the jurisdiction of […]
Building a surveillance law fit for purpose – new JUSTICE publication
November 3, 2015
In 2011, JUSTICE published Freedom from Suspicion: Surveillance Reform for a Digital Age, a forward looking report on the failure of the surveillance framework in the UK to keep pace with changing technology, to the detriment of both individual privacy and the credibility of the work of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. We recommended […]
Judicial Review and the Rule of Law: An introduction to the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, Part 4
October 21, 2015
This publication is the result of a collaborative project between JUSTICE, The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and The Public Law Project, and aims to provide an introduction to the latest changes to judicial review practice and procedure. Setting the latest changes from Parliament in their constitutional context, we hope that our work will help inform the […]
Law for Lawmakers: A JUSTICE guide to the law
July 8, 2015
JUSTICE has long worked on a cross-party basis to build a bridge between Westminster and the legal community. In that spirit, we have published Law for Lawmakers, a short introduction to some key legal and constitutional principles confronted by MPs, Peers and their staff in their work. This guide is designed to provide basic information and […]
In the dock
July 1, 2015
Reassessing the use of the dock in criminal trials The use of the dock for adult defendants in our criminal courts is unquestioned. Secure docks – with high walls made of glass panels – are most common, although some defendants will be held in open, wooden docks. While some courts will allow the defendant out […]