Today, JUSTICE joins together with other leading human rights organisations, Amnesty, Liberty and Reprieve, to regret the Government’s decision to reverse cross-party changes to the Justice and Security Bill made in the House of Lords. JUSTICE considers that the expansion of closed material procedures (or CMP) remains unfair, unnecessary and unjustified.  That Ministers reject the […]

Today, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court reaffirms the importance of the ancient common law writ of habeas corpus. Mr Rahmatullah, was captured by UK forces in Iraq and handed over to US forces in 2004, in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and the US governing the transfer of prisoners.  […]

JUSTICE today wrote to the Lord Chancellor pointing out that his oath of office under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 requires him to ‘respect the rule of law’. Read Press Release

JUSTICE Scotland has submitted a response to the Scottish Government on its review of criminal justice following the Cadder case and Lord Carloway’s inquiry into the way the system functions. Read Press Release Read JUSTICE Scotland’s response

Andrea Coomber has been appointed the new director of JUSTICE. Andrea is currently legal director of the international human rights organisation, INTERIGHTS. Read Press Release

JUSTICE Human Rights Director guests on the UK Human Rights Blog Angela Patrick explains why tomorrow’s Liberal Democrat Conference motion on the Justice and Security Bill gives party members an opportunity to speak out on the risks to open, equal and adversarial justice in the Government’s flawed Justice and Security Bill. Read the blog piece here. […]

JUSTICE has published its written evidence to the parliamentary Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill. The Draft Bill would enable the Government to compel providers of communications services to collect, store and keep new information about how we use the internet, the phone and the post to communicate with each other.   JUSTICE […]

As the Justice and Security Bill progresses through the House of Lords stages, our Human Rights Director highlights significant challenge from Peers from all three main political parties in the UK Human Rights Blog. JUSTICE remains unpersuaded of the Government’s case to expand the use of Closed Material Proceedings into ordinary civil proceedings. Read today’s […]

As the House of Lords meets to debate the Justice and Security Bill Second Reading, JUSTICE highlights its serious concerns about the impact of the Bill’s proposals on open, adversarial and equal justice. The Government is asking for an effective opt-out from our most basic principles of due process. The Supreme Court refused to extend […]

JUSTICE’s Human Rights Director reacts to the publication of the Justice and Security Bill in a guest piece for the UK Human Rights Blog. Despite widespread coverage of changes to the proposals since the publication of the Justice and Security Green Paper, the Bill represents a challenge to the UK’s longstanding traditions of open, adversarial […]