Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women

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In the Name of the Father (1993), about the conviction of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford pub bombings

Why is Britain refusing to compensate victims of miscarriage of justice?". Duncan Campbell, The Guardian. February 23, 2015. Kennedy’s intersectional feminist approach is refreshing. She considers how misogyny, race, class and trans issues all act together to affect women’s experiences in the courts. Tougher community sentences which double the amount of time offenders can be subject to curfew restrictions to 2 years. The strange case of a Norwegian shipbroker accused of a string of swindles on women led to another milestone in criminal law.

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A number of factors contribute to this process. First, police officers often have heavy workloads and, in high-profile cases, often come under considerable pressure to catch the perpetrator as soon as possible. This may encourage a rush to judgement - in a process described by psychologists as involving a high need for cognitive closure (NFC) - the desire for a clear-cut solution which avoids confusion and ambiguity. [32] Even when a wrongly convicted person is not executed, years in prison can have a substantial, irreversible effect on the person and their family. The risk of miscarriage of justice is therefore also an argument against long sentences, like a life sentence, and cruel prison conditions. The Criminal Appeal (Scotland) Act 1927 increased the jurisdiction of the Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal following the miscarriage of justice surrounding the Trial of Oscar Slater. New rules to end the need for participants to travel unnecessarily to court by allowing criminal courts to maximise the use of video and audio technology as it develops.

Professor Judith Shklar has written that Western philosophers tend to spend much more time discussing the concept of 'justice' rather than 'injustice'. On the other hand, she states both historical writing and fiction use instances of injustice as subject matter far more often than justice. [5] Immigration detainees in prisons face deportation and permanent separation from their families and the communities where they have grown up’

But women don’t have confidence in the justice system. And going by the litany of horrors that Kennedy details in this relentless, often disturbing book, no wonder.

Working as a high-level barrister at the very heart of the justice system, Helena Kennedy is well placed to examine whether this system is working for women. In her book, she draws on extensive experience working with women, both as victims and perpetrators of crime, and the challenges she has faced as one of the only QC female barristers. When Reginald Woolmington sawed the barrel off his shotgun and killed his wife in November 1934, he had no idea it would end up shaping legal history. The Innocence Project says 44% of wrongful convictions are the result of faulty forensic analysis. This occurs when forensic experts inadvertently or deliberately misrepresent the significance, validity or reliability of scientific evidence. Over the years, misrepresentations have been made in the arenas of serological analysis, microscopic hair comparison, and the analysis of bite marks, shoe prints, soil, fiber, and fingerprints. [16] Overconfident experts [ edit ] Makin, Kirk. "Guy Paul Morin Case". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada . Retrieved March 23, 2016. Herrmann, Benedikt, Christian Thöni, and Simon Gächter. "Antisocial punishment across societies." Science 319.5868 (2008): 1362–1367.Academics believe that six main factors contribute to miscarriages of justice. [14] [15] These include eyewitness misidentification, faulty forensic analysis, false confessions by vulnerable suspects, perjury and lies told by witnesses, misconduct by police, prosecutors or judges and inadequate defence strategies put forward by the defendant's legal team. [16] Unreliability of eyewitness testimony [ edit ] Article 14(6) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states that when a miscarriage of justice has occurred and the defendant's conviction has been reversed or they have been pardoned, "the person who has suffered punishment as a result of such conviction shall be compensated according to law". The right to compensation is also authorised by Article 3 of Protocol No. 7 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and Article 10 of the American Convention on Human Rights. [35]

Natapoff, Alexandra (2006–2007). "Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions". Golden Gate University Law Review. 37: 107–. we have equal legal rights to spend real time with our families, where there really is equal pay, where the pressures of the long-hours culture are removed, where pay in the caring professions was made so rewarding that it did not invariably fall to women to look after the elderly, the disabled or children in nurseries, nor that teaching in primary schools was a female role.” Changing the threshold for passing a sentence below the minimum term for repeat offenders, including key serious offences such as ‘third strike’ burglary which carries a minimum three-year custodial sentence and ‘two strike’ knife possession which has a minimum 6-month sentence for adults, making it less likely that a court will depart from theses minimum terms. a b Elizabeth Wolgast (1987). The Grammar of Justice. Cornell University Press. pp. 103. ISBN 978-0801494024.As law students , we are always told that we need to be commercially aware and this book is a great place to start! Christopher Stokes has been a partner in a City firm, marketing director and financial journalist and therefore has the knowledge of what working in the business world is like. It covers a broad range of topics including equity finance, debt finance, M&A, private equity and banking. It’s a great place to start if you wish to know about the financial markets in an understandable manner through the use of concepts being defined simply and with examples. It is a great little introductory handbook giving you the knowledge you need in a digestible form. Christopher also has a range of other books that may help you with commercial awareness , such as ; All You Need To Know About Commercial Awareness. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken