MOJUK - News Articles/Judgments/Reports October 2024

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Government Estimates That 1 In 4 People of Working Age Have a Criminal Record

Our First Political Prisoner? No. Locking Up Dissenters is an Ignoble British Tradition

CCRC: Modern Slavery and County Lines Connections Referred to Crown Court

CCRC: Man's Soldier Murder Conviction to be Re-Examined

EDM 332: Oliver Campbell Wrongful Conviction

More Than 1,000 Drone Incidents at Jails in England And Wales Last Year

CCRC: Case Involving Disputed Confessions Sent to Northern Ireland Court

Sebastião Lucas: Self-Inflicted Death 48 Hours After Arriving at Wandsworth Prison

Crown Offer No Evidence in Assault Emergency Worker Case

Court Of Appeal Allows Out of Time Appeal Against IPP

INQUEST: Responds to Highest Number of Deaths in & Following Police Custody For 17 Years

Australian Territory Resumes Jailing 10-Year-Old - Ethnic Aboriginals

Ministers to Give Magistrates in England and Wales More Sentencing Powers

Can You Apply to Reopen a Final Determination of the Court of Appeal?

IRR: Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 1 – 15 October 2024)

Stop and Search ‘Mission Creep’ Disproportionately Targets Marginalised Groups

Daugaard Sorensen v. Denmark ECtHR Held Unanimously Violations of Articles 3 & 8

Nsingi v. Greece ECtHR Held Unanimously - Wrongfull Imprisonment

Haugen v. Norway (ECtHR) Failure to Prevent Suicide of Prisoner

Struck Back at Police in Self-Defence - Perfectly Legal

Legal Toolkit: Representing Pregnant Women and Mothers in the Criminal Justice System

CCRC Refers Sexual Offence Conviction to the Court of Appeal

In the Netherlands, We’re Closing Our Emptying Prisons

Failure to Provide Opiate Substitute Treatment in Prison - Inhuman/Degrading/Discriminatory

Falsely Imprisoned Claimant Can Keep Damages Despite 'Barefaced Lies'

Labour Government No Accurate Data on Courts Crisis - Fears of Soaring Trials Backlog

‘A Wild Hypothesis’: Medical Experts Challenge Science Behind Letby Convictions

Saria Hart: Serious Failings By Staff at HMP Foston Hall Contributed to Self-Inflicted Death

4 Police Officers Under Investigation for Wrongful Conviction of Andrew Malkinson

Man Arrested on Suspicion of Murder After Prison Death

Woman's Conviction for Murdering Soldier Overturned

Nearly 500 Law Firms Sanctioned For Transparency Failures

Why Wait Until The Robots Take Our Jobs? We Need a Universal Basic Income Now

Northern Ireland: Secret Surveillance of Journalists Created 'Chill Factor'

A 2-Year Sentence for Throwing Soup - That’s The Farcical Reality of British Justice

Failure to Provide Opiate Substitute Treatment in Prison

Prison Education Failing Young Offenders - OFSTED

Baby P's Stepfather Refused Parole For Fifth Time

Black Bank Manager Settles ‘Racial Profiling’ Claim Against Metropolitan Police

Japan’s Abusive ‘Hostage Justice’ System Persists

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IRR: Calendar of Racism and Resistance (17 September – 1 October 2024)

October 3 2024:Written by: IRR News Team

Electoral Politics / Government Policy
As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally.

Anti-Fascism and the Far Right

Policing / Prisons / Criminal Justice System

Asylum / Migration / Citizenship

Borders and Internal Controls / Reception and Detention / Deportations

Crimes of solidarity

Human Rights And Discrimination

Education - Although we do not cover student protests for Palestine, we do track university administrative measures that deny the right to protest and authorise the use of force, or silence pro-Palestinian voices and display anti-Palestinian bias. 

Housing / Poverty / Welfare / Health /Social Care

Employment / Exploitation / Industrial Action

Culture / Media / Sport

Racial Violence / Harassment

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