The Met police attracted criticism after sending a letter to 24 young people in Brent - all believed to be black - demanding they attend a community meeting or be treated like law-breakers,...
The House of Commons Justice Committee is planning to undertake a second inquiry into 'joint enterprise' provisions, the Institute for Race Relations reports.
Joint enterprise, the Institute notes, allows for:
'individuals who ‘knowingly assisted or encouraged’ a crime to be charged as though they had personally committed the crime themselves. ‘Knowing assistance’ can include where defendants ‘should have foreseen’ the results of
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