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Published in: openJusticeHope for access to justice?Against a backdrop of cuts and closures, the Greater Manchester Law Centre opened its doors last year - an...
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Published in: openJusticeThe dark corners of our justice systemBy failing to allow access to prisons and youth detention centres, the Ministry of Justice is allowing abuse and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK government wants to move justice online - but can computers perform essentially human functions?Online courts may replace justice, empathy and judgment with compromise and efficiency.
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Published in: openJusticeOur criminal justice system is hiding its mistakesIf wrongly convicted of a crime, you would hope to find a transparent justice system that will help prove your...
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Published in: openJusticeThe far right must stop talking about the death penalty in EuropeFrom Marine Le Pen to Paul Nuttall, the far right has resurrected the idea of the death penalty in Europe. But it’s...
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Published in: openJusticeWhen no good deed goes unpunishedFamilies in the UK that open their doors to child relatives fleeing the camps of Calais are being penalised by...
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Published in: openJusticeUK government will be held accountable for complicity in torture and renditionAs Trump swears to bring back torture, the UK Supreme Court has held that the UK government will be held accountable...
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Published in: openJusticeAsylum seekers are left destitute and homeless due to a lack of legal aidOne of the least reported devastations caused by government legal aid cuts has been on asylum seekers. Vulnerable...
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Published in: openJusticeMore mega-prisons won't fix a broken societyThe British government is building more prisons to lock up more people in the most incarcerated country in Europe.
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Published in: openJusticeJustice - open to all, like the Ritz hotelThe government has committed to reviewing cuts to legal aid and the fight for justice and government accountability...
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Published in: openJusticeIt is the prisons, not the prisoners, that are to blame for record number of deathsThere were a record number of deaths in prison in 2016. The problem lies not with the vulnerability of prisoners or...
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Published in: openJusticeWhat we can learn from the Supreme Court decision on Article 50The Miller case teaches us about the British Constitution and exposes alarming ignorance from those at the top.
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Published in: openJusticeTo understand women's rights we must look at gendered lawsFollowing the global march for women's rights on Saturday, we must look more closely at the subtle but profound ways...
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Published in: openJusticeCan technology save access to justice?In the tsunami of austerity cuts, technology provides one of the few possible islands from which we can rebuild...
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Published in: openJusticeMake justice great again
openJustice had its official launch party this week. Helena Kennedy talked about access to justice, justice...
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Published in: openJusticeLet's talk about unity, not divisionA recent government report on race and integration in the UK has focussed on the differences between us at a time...
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Published in: openJusticeLegal aid cuts are a major human rights issueAmnesty found that the recent sharp cuts to civil legal aid have hurt not only those people already in the most...
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Published in: openJusticeJumping aboard the gravy trainWhile commercial law firms continue to declare annual profits amounting to hundreds of millions, cuts to legal aid...
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Published in: openJusticeWhy human rights now matter more than everIt’s Human Rights Day and, in these turbulent times, human rights are more important than ever.
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Published in: openJusticeChildren in custody need protection, not cruelty and bullying
Recent HMIC report found "inexcusably poor practices" by police towards children in custody. A cultural shift is...