Tackling the injustices of joint enterprise prosecutions
Our friends at JENGbA are holding an online event on Tuesday, 1 February, to launch a new push to change the law on 'joint enterprise' convictions.
The joint enterprise doctrine allows courts to find someone guilty by association. Thousands of people are serving prison sentences, some of them very long, merely because of their perceived association with a perpetrator. Five years ago the Supreme Court accepted that many prisoners had been wrongly convicted. Yet they remained trapped in a kafkaesque nightmare, unable to appeal their unjust convictions.
If you want to learn more about JENGbA's plans to make it easier for unjust convictions to be appealed, you can register for the event here. Our Head of Programmes, Helen Mills, will be among the speakers, reporting on our work with JENGbA tracking the joint enterprise dragnet.
If you want to know more about the work that we are doing, with JENGbA, assessing current prosecution practice in relation to joint enterprise, check out our project page.