MPs demand answers on joint enterprise
Our research on joint enterprise convictions was cited by Kate Osamor MP in parliament yesterday.
Our research on joint enterprise convictions was cited by Kate Osamor MP in parliament yesterday.
Today we have published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report looking at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
This week the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report which looks at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
I didn’t even know what Joint Enterprise was, when my QC was trying to explain it to me… all I was saying to him [was] ‘look, the pathologist said I haven’t
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Speech given to JENGbA event on joint enterprise in the Houses of Parliament.
Six years on from a Supreme Court ruling that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, new research suggests that there has been no discernible impact on joint enterprise prosecutions.
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
Next month, we're publishing new research suggesting that the criminal justice system remains stubbornly resistant to meaningful reform.
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Our March episode in 'Last month in criminal justice' is out now.
Six years to the day since the Supreme Court ruled that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, it is time for radical reform to address the injustices of joint enterprise prosecutions.