Time for Labour to act of joint enterprise reform
The Guardian newspaper published a sneak preview yesterday of our new report on joint enterprise.
The Guardian newspaper published a sneak preview yesterday of our new report on joint enterprise.
An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.
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 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.
Last month the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) agreed to collect data about secondary liability (so called ‘joint enterprise’) prosecutions.
Our research on joint enterprise convictions was cited by Kate Osamor MP in parliament yesterday.
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.
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.
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.
Watch the the final episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' before the summer.
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.