CCRC chair Helen Pitcher offers unreserved apology to Andrew Malkinson admitting the Commission had failed the wrongly convicted man. A review has yet to be published but is said to make 'sobering reading'. DNA test proved him innocent of a rape after serving 17 years in jail

Channel 4 News will feature an exclusive on my client, Richard Black, tonight. Richard, who returned to the UK on Monday after 40 years exclusion, questions why justice evades Black people even when major wrongs have been committed.

#WindrushScandal
#HostileEnvironment

An unflinching, searing account of Gaza by @leemordechai: the multiple massacres & war crimes against civilians, the direct, systemic responsibility of the Israeli govt, all extensively documented and evidenced.

Please read and share. Full pdf here:

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Having governed 3 prisons, run 3 anti-corruption units, delivered anti-corruption training from India to Argentina, written the handbook on anti-corruption measures for UNODC , I agree with David not the POA.

That was an awesome trial for a brilliant and fearless bunch of guys

This could be a trailer!

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For Sounddelivery Media simon israel will talk to Sue James Sue Beere Unchained Poetry Zimbo Freemind Jan Cunliffe 🧡JENGbA. ⬇️

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Very generous

Blair Peach’s partner horrified to have been spied on channel4.com/news/undercove… via Channel 4 News

Join our online event chaired by simon israel aimed at journalists & others looking to hear new perspectives on the #JusticeSystem . Hear from Sue Beere, Jan Cunliffe 🧡JENGbA, Unchained Poetry, Sue James, @zimbosla from the #SDMNetwork . Register now:
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The deliberate and cynical destruction of Sure Start stands out - against stiff competition - as one of the worst long-term policy decisions taken by a British government in recent decades.

Undercover policing: Blair Peach’s partner horrified to have been spied on channel4.com/news/undercove… via Channel 4 News

NEWS: The Court of Appeal has quashed our Somali refugee client’s conviction for possessing a false ID document because her former criminal defence representatives failed to advise her about the ‘refugee defence’ under s31 Immigration and Asylum Act 1999: bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/…

As time is drawing near for me to be able to pay my respects to my dear friend, I'm reminded of some of his words...
'We deserve a prison system that hates the crime, perhaps hates the criminal but for Christ sake give the prisoner a chance.'
faithspear.wordpress.com/2019/11/03/a-c…

After your podcast on corruption, Rory Stewart & ALASTAIR CAMPBELL , we have to find new ways of funding politics, what do you think of our idea of a ‘democracy voucher’ so individuals vote where state funding goes?
commissionpoliticalpower.uk/publications/l…

SUCCESS🎉Our lawyer has just won an appeal against the Home Office on behalf of his client, S.

S has lived in the UK for over 20 years, but it took her years of legal struggle to win recognition as a victim of trafficking, and refugee.

“It’s a wild story”, a contact said of a Gibraltar public inquiry. They weren’t wrong. Cops arrested for allegedly fabricating evidence, claims the government has improperly induced witnesses, + alleged fraud at heart of govt. My dispatch from the Rock ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/article/16f813…

How to reduce corruption in politics by the Commission on Political Power, seems particularly appropriate today

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No corruption, no collusion, no culpability. Met police absolved of any responsibility for 2003 gangster murder of Sabina Rizvi channel4.com/news/sabina-ri… via Channel 4 News

A coroner’s ruled there’s no evidence of Met Police corruption,collusion or culpability in 2003 gangster murder of Sabina Rizvi. She was shot dead in night time ambush when driving away from Bexley Heath police stn. Family believed police could or should have known the dangers

Magistrates are demanding major reforms to the Single Justice Procedure, to protect sick, vulnerable & elderly people

- New 'public interest' check from prosecutors
- Better training
- More openness, written sentencing reasons in some cases

The Magistrates' Association

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