CWJ submission to the Ministry of Justice murder sentencing consultation - March 2024

CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on the ‘Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline’ - February 2024

CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on Miscellaneous Amendments to Sentencing Guidelines - February 2024

Shadow Report on the Istanbul Convention, VAWG Sector England and Wales - December 2023

Life or Death? Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women (full report) - November 2023

Life or Death? Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women (executive summary) - November 2023

A Whole-Society Approach to ending Violence against Women and Girls: VAWG Sector Manifesto - September 2023

Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ Call for Evidence on the Victims and Prisoners’ Bill - July 2023

Making self-defence accessible to victims of domestic abuse who use force against their abuser: Learning from reforms in Canada, New Zealand and Australia - July 2023

What’s Changed? Government’s ‘End-to-End’ Rape Review - Two Years On (A report by Centre for Women’s Justice, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Imkaan and Rape Crisis England and Wales) - June 2023

CWJ response to the Home Office’s Review on the Process of Police Officer Dismissals: Comments on Existing Discipline and Performance Systems - Feb 2023

CWJ Angiolini Inquiry Consultation Response - Feb 2023

CWJ evidence submission to Women and Equalities Committee inquiry on Honour Based Violence - Dec 2022

CWJ evidence submission to Home Affairs Committee inquiry into policing priorities - Oct 2022

Women’s Rights are Human Rights: What the Bill of Rights will mean for ending violence against women and girls (joint report with EVAW, Rights of Women, CWJ and Southall Black Sisters) - Sept 2022

CWJ submission to the Home Office’s Consultation on Police Requests for Third Party Material - August 2022

Children Conceived in rape: A rapid evidence review for the Centre for Women’s Justice - July 2022

CWJ Briefing on Daisy's Law Victims of Rape Conception - July 2022

No safe space: Lessons for national policy and local practice from the West Midlands multi-agency response to women involved in offending or alleged offending who are victims of domestic abuse - July 2022

9 NGOs’ Response to the Consultation on The Extraction of Information from Electronic Devices Code of Practice [The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022] - July 2022

CWJ briefing on police perpetrated abuse super-complaint outcome - June 2022

CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on Perverting the Course of Justice and Witness Intimidation Guidelines - June 22

CWJ submission on independent legal advice and representation for rape survivors - June 2022

CWJ submission to consultation on CPS Domestic Abuse Legal Guidance - June 2022

CWJ submission to consultation on revised HomeOffice Statutory Guidance Framework on Controlling or Coercive Behaviour - June 2022

Double Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls - March 2022

Double Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (Executive Summary) - March 2022

CWJ consultation submission on proposals to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 - Mar 2022

CWJ submission to the Prisons Strategy White Paper consultation - Feb 2022

CWJ’s submission to Victims’ Bill consultation - Feb 2022

Letter to Home Secretary regarding the Inquiry into issues arising from the conviction of Wayne Couzens - Dec 2021

CWJ briefing – response to super- complaint report on police use of protective measures - August 2021

CWJ submission on third party disclosure in rape investigations - June 2021

Women Who Kill: How the State Criminalises Women we Might Otherwise be Burying - February 2021

Women Who Kill: How the State Criminalises Women we Might Otherwise be Burying (executive summary) - February 2021

Submission to Home Office Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy : Section 1 - 3 - February 2021

Submission to Home Office Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy : Section 4 - ending the unjust criminalisation of survivors of domestic abuse and other forms of VAWG - February 2021

Submission on a femicide post-death investigations oversight mechanism - February 2021

Detailed submission on non-fatal strangulation for Domestic Abuse Bill - January 2021

The Decriminalisation of Rape: Why the justice system is failing rape survivors and what needs to change (EVAW, CWJ, RAPE CRISIS E&W & IMKAAN) - November 2020

Inquiry into Institutional Responses to the Sexual Exploitation of Children by Organised Networks - Written Closing Submissions by the Centre for Women’s Justice - November 2020

Outline briefing on non-fatal strangulation for Domestic Abuse Bill - October 2020

Outline briefing on pre-charge bail for Domestic Abuse Bill - May 2020

Detailed submission on pre-charge bail for Domestic Abuse Bill Parliamentary Committtee - May 2020

Super-complaint: Failure to address police perpetrated domestic abuse (Annex 2 - FOI data can be viewed here) - March 2020

Super-complaint : Police failure to use protective measures in cases involving violence against women and girls - March 2019

Submission To The Women and Equalities Committee: The Use of Non-Disclosure Agreements in Discrimination Cases - February 2019

2022

Dame Vera Baird QC
Annual Report of the Victims’ Commissioner 2021-2022
June 2022

Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2022: The Annual Audit
March 2022

Femicide Census
Femicide Report 2020
February 2022

Femicide Census
Femicide Report 2019
February 2022

2023

Women’s Budget Group
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice
July 2023

Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2023: The Annual Audit
January 2023

2019
Crown Prosecution Service
Violence Against Women and Girls Report 2018 - 2019
September 2019

End Violence Against Women Coalition
Do Police and Crime Commissioners work for women and girls?
July 2019

Women and Equalities Committee
The use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination cases
June 2019

Inquest
Still Dying on the Inside Update
June 2019

Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2019: The Annual Audit
March 2019

O. Smith, E. Daly, C. Herriott - Anglia Ruskin Uni
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme & Sexual Offences
January 2019

2020
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2020: The Annual Audit
March 2020

Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Guidance on non-disclosure agreements
February 2020

Malcolm Newsam CBE and Gary Ridgway
Independent assurance review of the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester
January 2020

2021
Inspection by HMICFRS
Police response to violence against women and girls – Final inspection report
September 2021

Joint Inspection by HMICFRS and HMCPSI
A joint thematic inspection of the police and Crown Prosecution Service’s response to rape – Phase one: From report to police or CPS decision to take no further action
July 2021

Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2021: The Annual Audit
Jan 2021

2016
Women’s Aid and Karen Ingala Smith
Femicide Census: Redefining an Isolated Incident
December 2016

HMIC
National Child Protection
Inspections: Metropolitan Police Service 1 February – 27 May 2016
November 2016

Imkaan
Capital Losses: the State of the Specialist BME Ending Violence Against Women and Girls sector in London
2016

2017
Joint Inspection by HMIC and HMCPSI
Living in fear – the police and CPS response to harassment and stalking
July 2017

Eaves and NIA
“I’m no criminal”: Examining the impact of prostitution-specific criminal records on women seeking to exit prostitution
May 2017

Crown Prosecution Service
Tenth Annual Violence Against Women and Girls Report 2016-2017
2016/2017

Gemma Lousley and Sarah Cope
We are still here: the continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl’s Wood
2016/2017

End Violence Against Women Coalition and Southall Black Sisters
Violence against women and girls: Protecting women’s human rights and holding the state to account
2017

2018
Agenda
Women in Crisis: How women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act.
August 2018

The Women’s Budget Group
The Female Face of Poverty: Examining the causes and consequences of economic deprivation for women
July 2018

House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee
Sexual harassment in the workplace: Fifth Report of Session 2017–19
July 2018

Refuge and Warwick Law School
Domestic abuse and suicide
July 2018

Inquest
Still Dying on the Inside: Examining Deaths in Women’s Prisons
May 2018

Office of the Children’s Commissioner
Voices from the Inside: The experiences of girls in Secure Training Centres
March 2018

Women’s Aid
Survival and Beyond: The Domestic Abuse Report 2017
2018

The Women’s Resource Centre
Hearing women’s voices: Why women 2018
2018

2008
HMCS, Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service
Specialist Domestic Violence Courts Review 2007-08: Justice with Safety
March 2008

2011
Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University
Islands in the Stream: an evaluation of independent domestic violence advocacy scheme
January 2011

2012
Professor Sylvia Walby
Measuring the Impact of Cuts in Public Expenditure on the Provision of Services to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
January 2012

2013
Office of the Children’s Commissioner
“If only someone had listened”: Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups
November 2013

Alison Levitt QC and Crown Prosecution Service Equality and Diversity Unit
Charging Perverting the Course of Justice and Wasting Police Time in Cases Involving Allegedly False Rape and Domestic Violence Allegations
March 2013

2014
HMIC
Everyone’s business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse
2014

2015
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, Rashida Manjoo
Report on her mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
May 2015

Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC
Report of the Independent Review into the Investigation and Prosecution of Rape in London
April 2015

Baring Foundation
An Independent Mission: The Voluntary Sector in 2015
February 2015

Joint Committee on Human Rights
Violence Against Women and Girls: Sixth Report of Session 2014-15
February 2015