“Today’s report overall represents a huge missed opportunity. There is a lack of hard-hitting recommendations which will result in real change. This crime will continue as long as perpetrators think they can get away with it which – in the current system – they do, due to the appallingly low number of effective criminal investigations or prosecutions.”
Read moreJust how many ‘bad apples’ are within our police forces?
We've tried to avoid litigation but we have been left with no choice.
If we lose we will have to pay the Home Secretary’s legal fees, which as a charity we can't afford to do. But we also feel we can't let this missed opportunity go unchallenged.
Read moreDon't forget to respond to the government’s Victims’ Bill consultation!
We would like to encourage everyone with expertise of the victims’ experience of the criminal justice system (be it professionally or personally) to put in a submission to this consultation, however short, and make your voice heard.
Read morePR: CWJ comment on the National Audit Office report into the commitments of the Ministry of Justice Female Offender Strategy
The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published their report finding that the Ministry of Justice has 'made limited progress' on its Female Offender Strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system.
Read morePR: CWJ comment on the published Terms of Reference of the Angliolini Inquiry
We comment following the publication of Terms of Reference for the public inquiry looking into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sarah Everard.
Read moreWe are taking the Home Secretary to court
We have issued judicial review proceedings against the Home Secretary, Priti Patel MP, over the proposed inquiry into police perpetrated abuse. We had hoped to avoid this course of action, but have been forced to do so.
Read moreChallenging Police Perpetrated Abuse
This year, we are raising funds to challenge police perpetrated abuse. For 7 days only, any donations given to this campaign will be matched. One Donation, TWICE The Impact
Read morePR: Gwent police issue public apology and settle civil claim brought by two women subject to domestic abuse by a fellow police officer
Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman of Gwent police has personally apologised to two women who were serving officers abused by a more senior police officer, after they were failed when reporting their allegations.
Read moreVacancy!
We are looking for a feminist lawyer, with a track record in actions against the police, to join our enquiries team assisting survivors and frontline women’s services with legal advice and support.
Read moreStatement re: Sam Pybus Court of Appeal Judgment
Women’s groups appalled at judgment of Court of Appeal and call for further overhaul of the law and criminal justice practice in relation to strangulation and so called “rough sex” cases.
Read morePR: Women’s groups apply to intervene in Sam Pybus sentencing appeal
This morning (11.11.21) the Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) and the campaign group We Can’t Consent to This (WCCTT) applied for permission to intervene in the sentencing appeal hearing of Sam Pybus.
Read morePR: Anniversary of Gaia Pope’s Disappearance Marked by Call for Connor Hayes Witnesses & Survivors to Come Forward to the Centre for Women’s Justice
CWJ are supporting the Justice for Gaia campaign and invites anyone who has been a victim or can provide useful evidence about Connor Hayes’ sexual offending to come forward.
Read morePR:Legal action threatened by Centre for Women’s Justice if the Home Secretary fails to take urgent steps to tackle police perpetrated abuse
CWJ, with the support of 21 national women’s organisations and others, have today taken the first formal step in bringing judicial review proceedings against the Home Secretary in respect of her failure to take adequate and timely steps to set up a statutory inquiry into the wider issues arising following the conviction of Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens.
Read moreCWJ Statement: The abuse of Azra Kemal and other victims by David Fuller
The team at CWJ are shocked and angered to hear of how Azra had been violated, following her death, by David Fuller, now on trial for the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce. The pain and the fury that all the families of his victims must be feeling, cannot be imagined.
Read moreAnnouncing The Azra Kemal Legal Internship Programme
We are delighted to announce the launch of a paid legal internship programme for women from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds.
Read morePR: Penelope Jackson – verdict and sentence
A joint statement for Centre for Women’s Justice and Justice for Women on the verdict and sentencing of Penelope Jackson
Read moreThere is no right to buy sex!
Today (22nd October 2021) the Court of Appeal overturned a decision in the Court of Protection which many feared would imply a “human right” to buy sex.
Read morePR: Women's groups join call for Home Secretary to expand scope and approach to Police public inquiry
20 key women’s organisations, working on the frontline to combat violence against women and girls, have joined to support Centre for Women's Justice's (CWJ) request to the Home Secretary that she re-consider the scope and approach of her announced public inquiry in response to the conviction of Wayne Couzens.
Read moreCWJ Statement: Public Inquiry Into Issues Arising From Conviction Of Wayne Couzens
Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) have written to the Home Secretary requesting that she reconsiders the basis and scope of the inquiry she announced at the Conservative Party conference into “issues raised by the conviction of Wayne Couzens” and the “unimaginable failings in policing”.
Read moreStatement Re Home Office inquiry in wake of murder of Sarah Everard
The Home Office has today announced that an inquiry will be launched to identify systemic failures within policing across England and Wales in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.
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