Watch our parliamentary event with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and others, held on 4th March 2021
Read morePR: Non-fatal strangulation to become stand-alone offence
Non-fatal strangulation or suffocation is to be a stand-alone offence within the Domestic Abuse Bill, following a campaign by CWJ alongside other organisations and the Victims and Domestic Abuse Commissioners
Read moreStop Criminalising Survivors!
Please write to your MP now, asking them to write to the Secretary of State for Justice expressing your support for our proposed new statutory defences for survivors who offend due to their experience of domestic abuse.
Read moreWomen Who Kill: Launch event recording
Our research onethe crminal justice response to women who kill their abusive partners was launched at an online event on 17th February 2021. Speakers included Harriet Wistrich, Sophie Howes, Pragna Patel, Sally Challen, Dame Vera Baird QC, Professor Elizabeth Sheehy and Naz Shah MP. Watch the recording here…
Read moreSentencing of Anthony Williams: institutionalised sexism within the Criminal Justice system laid bare
Anthony Williams was today handed a five-year sentence by a judge at Swansea Crown Court for the manslaughter of his wife, Ruth, of 46 years. He had told detectives he just snapped when she told him to “get over it.”
Read moreWomen Who Kill: How The State Criminalises Women We Might Otherwise Be Burying
This report is the culmination of a four year research study that explores the criminal justice response to women who kill abusive men.
Read moreCriminal convictions of women exploited in prostitution will remain on the Police National Computer (PNC) until they reach 100 years of age:
Today the Divisional Court handed down judgment in a case brought by three women who were all pimped into prostitution as teenagers and have multiple convictions for soliciting and loitering
Read more26 & 27 January, Court of Appeal: Rape Campaigners Face CPS in Court
A coalition of women’s organisations will face the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the Court of Appeal in a two day judicial review hearing on 26 and 27 January 2021, as three of the country’s most senior judges will consider whether the CPS unlawfully changed its policy and practice on decision-making in rape cases.
Read moreWomen prostituted as teenagers to challenge the retention of their criminal records till they reach 100 years
On 19 January the High Court will hear a landmark legal challenge of the Home Office and Police policy which requires the retention of all criminal convictions until the person reaches 100 years of age.
Read moreCWJ welcomes long overdue U-turn to law on bail which had left women in danger
CWJ welcomes the introduction of the changes to pre-charge bail in the Protection of the Police and Public, Courts and Sentencing Bill, announced today.
Read moreNew offence of non-fatal strangulation welcomed
Centre for Women’s Justice welcomes the Lord Chancellor’s announcement of a new stand alone offence of non fatal strangulation, originally formulated by CWJ as a proposed amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill.
Read more2020 and the year to come...
Whilst the past year has been incredibly hard and challenging for so many people, in particular for women and children living in households with abusive men as well as those made homeless as a consequence of abuse, we would like to reflect on some key events and celebrate some positive outcomes from the work of CWJ and our wider network over the past year.
Read moreStop Penalising Survivors of Sexual Exploitation
This year we are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge. We have between 1st and 8th December to reach our £5k target. if we make it, the donations will be doubled to £10k. If we fail, we get nothing!!
Read moreRAPE PROSECUTIONS: New report finds system collapse and calls for political intervention on juries, police and prosecutors
This new 80-page report refers to ongoing legal action against the CPS for failings and sets out overwhelming evidence that rape cases are being dropped when they should not be.
Read moreUK Femicides 2009-2018: Femicide Census Report
She inadvertently predicted her own killing as she left work with the words: "If I'm not in Friday, I might be dead."
The Femicide Census collates the details of hundreds of femicides, to demonstrate the scale of the violence and to explore whether lessons can be learnt by viewing these cases together.
Read moreEmma Humphreys Memorial Prize 2020
EHMP and CWJ are again working together to award two prizes to fantastic feminist campaigners
Read moreCredibility of Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry under threat
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) came under strong criticism today for ‘a profound imbalance in the evidence’ timetabled for the 10-day hearing on institutional responses to child sexual exploitation by organised networks.
Read morePublic Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised Networks: Virtual Hearing commences 21 September 2020
The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) is a core participant at the forthcoming virtual hearing of the Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised Networks investigation in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Read moreGaia Pope Inquest Resumes 15 Sept
The hearing will consider what issues the inquest will cover and when it will take place. Two hearings were cancelled over the summer and after almost three years her family say vital questions about Gaia’s death - and the adequacy of local support services - remain unanswered.
Read moreVictory for victims as police issue new digital data ‘consent forms’
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has this month issued new forms and guidance, which set out the circumstances in which the police may lawfully ask a victim or witness to provide material from their digital devices in the course of a criminal investigation. The announcement forms part of the settlement of a legal challenge commenced by the Centre for Women’s Justice last year.
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