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07 Sep 2023 Health

Letby inquiry must have teeth but not succumb to pressure for unnecessary change

The announcement that there will be a statutory inquiry into the murders committed by Lucy Letby is another important step on the road to justice for the families so tragically affected by this case.

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25 Nov 2022 Home affairs

Law Commission recommendations to protect victims of intimate image abuse to be implemented

The Government has today announced that it will implement Law Commission recommendations to strengthen the law to protect victims of intimate image abuse.

25 Oct 2022 Culture

Our criminal system is broken: we must prioritise care in our communities

When I was 15 years old, my friend was murdered.

19 Oct 2022 Foreign affairs

Iranian women have long fought for justice – but these protests are a turning point

It’s probably fair to say that we don’t tend to think of women having much political or public influence in Middle Eastern or Islamic countries.

11 Oct 2022 Communities

Last year, I called out the lack of political imagination for Black History Month. This year, a lack of political accountability concerns me

The problems I was concerned with last year – the lack of political imagination and the persistent political inertia on equality remain relevant

We need to raise awareness of Honour Based Abuse to protect our communities

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20 Jul 2022 Communities

We need to raise awareness of Honour Based Abuse to protect our communities

Last Thursday (July 14th) was the Day of Memory for victims of Honour Based Abuse and National Lottery-funded charities have been calling for increased visibility, reporting and understanding of Honour-Based Abuse (HBA), to ensure survivors get the right support.

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10 Jun 2022 Home affairs

Law Commission sets out options to Government for reforming how companies are convicted of criminal offences

17 May 2022 Home affairs

We’re in danger of losing our democracy

Last week, a young woman was arrested at her flat the day after stewarding a peaceful protest against the policies of our government.

12 May 2022 Home affairs

Fraud may be our most common crime but policing has failed to catch up

Voters always worry about crime, and politicians always want to offer them reassurance. That usually means talking about police numbers, and often about “bobbies on the beat”. But such conversations fail to take account of the fact the nature of crime has changed.

17 Jan 2022 Home affairs

Policing Bill must be amended to protect the right to protest and end slippery slope towards authoritarianism

Before Christmas, under the cover of darkness, men in masks dismantled one of the last remaining monuments reminding a nation of a heinous crime committed by their own government.

10 Dec 2021 Culture

The UK must take the lead against online sexual exploitation of children

When Joy (pseudonym) was 10 years old, a woman she knew and trusted invited her into her house. Once she was inside, Joy was surprised when the woman asked her to take off her clothes so that she could take pictures. While Joy was scared by this request, she felt she had no choice as she was already inside the woman’s house.

02 Dec 2021 Home affairs

It’s shameful that victims feel demeaned and degraded instead of seeing justice delivered

“You’re safer staying in that abusive relationship than you are trying to get out. The aftermath is 100 per cent worse.” Harrowing words that you’d never think a survivor of attempted murder, rape and domestic abuse would utter. But that’s the harsh reality Rachel (pseudonym) and many other survivors face because of the ugly truth behind our broken criminal justice system.

15 Nov 2021 Home affairs

It is high time we increased the minimum age of criminal responsibility

We treat our young people appallingly, from schools forced to become exam factories to breath-taking rates of child poverty.

09 Nov 2021 Home affairs

We must fix the gaping hole in inheritance law to build a system that properly supports victims of domestic abuse

Recently, a Vauxhall resident contacted me with a case that was scarcely believable. During an advice surgery, he told me that his mother had tragically died of suicide last year following domestic abuse perpetrated by her husband, his stepfather. The coroner ruled that his actions were a direct cause of her suicide.

23 Oct 2021 Home affairs

Conservatives take aim at Human Rights Act - again

The Conservative government has publicly renewed its ambition to make potentially sweeping changes to the Human Rights Act (HRA), ahead of the publication of an independent review in the coming weeks.

20 Oct 2021 Home affairs

The Police Bill will trap people in a cycle of eviction and criminalisation – it must be changed

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill working its way through the Lords seeks not to protect or celebrate our age-old way of life, but to openly discriminate against it.

23 Sep 2021 Home affairs

We need fundamental reforms to address the epidemic of violence against women

The last Law Commission review of hate crime, published in 2014, still sits unused on a dusty shelf at the Ministry of Justice, so it is hard to have confidence this one will be any different.

24 Aug 2021 Home affairs

Westminster should follow Scotland’s lead and introduce news laws to prevent violence against shop workers

Shop workers are key workers, they are the silent heroes in our community, overlooked and underappreciated for too long. But they don’t just need our thanks, they need legislative action.

24 Aug 2021 Home affairs

The Horizon Post Office scandal continues to dog its many victims

You may have thought the Post Office Horizon scandal was over, and that it had been dealt with. It isn’t. It hasn’t been. The plight of the subpostmasters, wrongfully accused by the government-owned Post Office of stealing money when it was actually the new Horizon accounting system that was to blame, has horrified the country.

19 Aug 2021 Home affairs

Violent misogyny does not exist on the fringes – it’s a daily threat to women’s lives

Half-hearted legislation to subject gun license applicants to a social media check will remain ineffective unless misogynistic motivations behind the violence are acknowledged.

21 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Years of austerity and deprivation has allowed crime to thrive while robbing children of their bright futures

Community policing and trust takes investment of both time and money, which are two things that our police forces have been starved of.

08 Jul 2021 Home affairs

David Cameron and Theresa May battled modern slavery – now Boris Johnson is enabling it

Priti Patel pledged to build a system “where criminality is not rewarded”. Yet the Nationality and Borders Bill does exactly that.

05 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Government can help end the scourge of domestic abuse by taking robust action on perpetrators

There are proven methods to change the behaviour of those who commit violent crimes against women. Government must include long-term funding for these strategies in the comprehensive spending review

05 Jul 2021 Home affairs

We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics

Images of women having to walk past people holding out plastic babies and telling them they’re murderers do not belong in England.