Magazine about law and justice & the difference between the two. Editors: Jon Robins & Sam Dulieu. Support us, buy PROOF: thejusticegap.com/shop/
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PROOF is back. Issue #7 out now: Cover-ups, jailhouse snitches & scapegoats. Check out here: thejusticegap.com/cover-ups-… . Order your copy now thejusticegap.com/shop
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'Seriously wrong': @CommonsJustice highlight concerns about judicial appointments in new report on government's flagship court reforms raising serious concerns over 'stark underrepresentation'. Just 1% of crown court judges are Black - 'shocking', say MPs thejusticegap.com/mps-highli…
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MPs quoted the justice secretary David Lammy’s own landmark 2017 review of race and the justice system which found that juries were ‘one of the few areas of the criminal justice system where Black and Ethnic Minority defendants do not face disproportionate outcomes’.
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Why is government ignoring evidence-based reports warning against police control of forensics? There have been two damning reports abt dire state of forensics in last 12m warning about miscarriages of justice. Prof Angela Gallop warns of 'a major misstep' thejusticegap.com/leading-fo…
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‘The police have far too much to do and they aren't scientists. With the best will in world, this will simply condemn public to many more miscarriages of justice and further loss of confidence in the justice system and government.’ Pro Gallop to policing minister @LabourSJ
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‘No meaningful progress’ on mental health transfers at HMP Wakefield: Two prisoners have been waiting > 500 and 300 days respectively for transfer, accoridng to @HMIPrisonsnews. The legal limit is 28 days thejusticegap.com/no-meaning…
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Disappointment that key recommendations from Angiolini Inquiry still not implemented: 'It is women and girls who will bear the cost if the government does not invest in prevention,' says @EVAWuk thejusticegap.com/disappoint…
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Welsh prisons ‘fail the people meant to serve,’ MPs warn. Wales has highest imprisonment rate in Europe - 177 per 100,000 (compared to average of 83). Prisons 'struggling with population pressures, staffing shortages and increasingly complex demand' thejusticegap.com/welsh-pris…
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Wales has no women's prisons - but higher female imprisonment rate than England - 78% of women sentenced to immediate custody received sentences of 12m or less, compared with 66% of men
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Paul Quinn sentenced to 24 years for ‘evil’ crime Malkinson went down for: the earliest Quinn could be released from prison is after 14 years before being released on license. IOPC investigating five police officers, including one for possible thejusticegap.com/paul-quinn…
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Until Joshua Rozenberg pointed this out, nobody else, as far as I know, had reported that 2 of the Fordingbridge rapists had already served the equivalent of 17 & 18 month custodial sentences whilst awaiting trial. A relevant fact, & a pretty dismal failure of court reporting.
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Victims ‘feel like they have to fight the state all over again’: @CommonsPAC hear how victims of Windrush, Infected Blood, and Horizon scandals face significant barriers to compensation and ‘retraumatised by the process’ thejusticegap.com/victims-fe…
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Alan Bates said the Post Office scheme became ‘bogged down in lawyers’. Windrush claimants who received legal advice saw increases in compensation - one payout rising from £300 to £170,000
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Miscarriage of justice watchdog refers 15th case related to racist and corrupt police officer Derek Ridgewell -so far, 13 convictions have been overturned including the Oval Four and Stockwell Six thejusticegap.com/fifteenth-…
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Magistrate sanctioned after threatening to give defendant a ‘good hiding’
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Further delays to justice for the post office scandal victims: New York Times reports criminal charges may be delayed because of funding. Commander Stephen Clayman told NYT he needed 99 extra staff and ‘that present funding ‘goes nowhere near that.’ thejusticegap.com/further-de…
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Lucy Letby ‘bullied’ by doctors: Thirlwall Inquiry publishes draft report into nurse's grievance against two consultants who initiated police inquiry. 'That LL has been subjected to an ordeal based on a "gut feeling"... not compatible with trust values'. thejusticegap.com/lucy-letby…
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'The problem with the prison service is it never apologises and never explains': @shattenstone and @John_Podmore talk to @doubjeopardypod about alarming ban preventing Jeremy Bamber talking to journalists thejusticegap.com/guardian-t…
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Rising sentences for climate and Palestine protesters: According to @DefendOurJuries 286 instances where climate or Palestine activists received prison sentences since 2019. In 256 verified case, this represented a total of 136 yrs of prison thejusticegap.com/rising-sen…
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CCRC has sent what it believes could be first of many grooming gang cases back to the courts. 'We are conscious there will be many other victims who were in a similar position and would assure them that we will investigate their cases too,' said @VeraBaird thejusticegap.com/first-groo…
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Bishop Joanne Grenfell has made a brilliant maiden speech in the House of Lords. ‘Miscarriages of justice aren't abstract legal concepts but lived human experiences. They concern individuals who maintain innocence while navigating a system slow, complex & difficult to penetrate.'
Bishop takes her fight on behalf of wrongly convicted to the Lords: Powerful maiden speech from Bishop Joanne Grenfell highlighting shocking 6 year wait by @FreeJasonMoore for decision from CCRC. Pic from PROOF #6. thejusticegap.com/bishop-tak…
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