Keeping up the pressure for joint enterprise reform
An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.
An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.
We have been working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.
We are working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.
The annual Longford Lecture, now in its 21st year, has become something of a fixture in the criminal justice reformer’s calendar.
The lack of new government action on joint enterprise was criticised in the House of Lords on Thursday.
On Friday the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released the first data from the long called-for monitoring of joint enterprise prosecutions.
The Centre is currently scrutinising a number of serious violence policies and practices as part of our Young Adult Safety project.
Concerns about joint enterprise were raised in the House of Lords last week.
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Last month the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) agreed to collect data about secondary liability (so called ‘joint enterprise’) prosecutions.
News that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will set up a pilot scheme to record data on the age, race, sex and disability of those prosecuted under the joint enterprise doctrine is a welcome, if small, step in the right direction.