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Published in: openJusticeDo more police mean less crime?Labour and the Liberal Democrats are both pledging an increase in police officer numbers. Are these plans a welcome...
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Published in: openJusticeThe fate of the 'jungle' childrenA study of the experiences of children from the Calais 'jungle', now claiming asylum in the North West of England,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCivil liberties and human rights – what’s at stake in the UK's 2017 General Election?Human rights are important for everyone, because without the right to protest against particular policies it is much...
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Published in: openJusticeThe quiet revolution that could transform livesMost people can't afford a transcript from their own trial even when it's the only thing that could prove their...
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Published in: openJusticeWhat would true court modernisation look like?Plans to modernise the courts in England and Wales may change how the justice system looks and feels, but it may not...
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Published in: openJusticeWe don't need more police, we need a shift of responsibilitiesAs services were withdrawn from vulnerable people, the police occupied the gap. Election campaigns should...
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Published in: openJusticeHow to make the roads saferAs the number of UK cyclists soar, so do death and injury on the roads. These are two simple rules that would reduce...
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Published in: openJusticeIt's about time our judiciary started to reflect the people it servesA senior judiciary that so clearly fails to reflect the ethnic, gender and social composition of the nation...
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Published in: openJusticeDraconian cuts to legal aid for prisoners found to be unlawful by Court of AppealA rare thing: some good news for prisoners and legal aid.
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Published in: openJusticeDo fewer lawyers and judges of colour mean more prisoners of colour?When professionals within the criminal justice system cannot relate to the ordinary people that come before them,...
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Published in: openJusticeHow safe is the legal aid 'safety net'?When the government decimated legal aid, they created a ‘safety net’ for human rights related cases. Has the scheme...
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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.