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 civil justice. The Government has failed to provide evidence to support the need for such radical reforms, which are unfair, unnecessary and unjustified.
Read JUSTICE’s response to the consultation on the Justice and Security Green Paper.
For more information, contact Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy on apatrick@justice.org.uk or 020 7762 6415.