On Monday we spoke to Fri Martin and others about how the criminal justice system was failing women who have been criminalised as a result of male violence. If you missed the event, you can watch now.
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EVENT: 14th March - GIVE HER JUSTICE
Sally Challen, Emma-Jayne Magson, Fri Martin: Three cases, and three years on, we join to celebrate the remarkable victories but to bemoan to continued injustice that so many victims of male violence face. We look at what has changed in the criminal justice response to such cases, what still needs to change and how you can help.
Read morePR: JUSTICE and Centre for Women’s Justice call on Home Office to urgently reopen ‘Spy Cops’ code of practice consultation
JUSTICE’s Chief Executive, Fiona Rutherford, has jointly written alongside Harriet Wistrich, Founding Director of the Centre for Women’s Justice, to Damian Hinds MP, the Minister for Security and Borders. The letter highlights our serious concerns with the consultation process for the draft revised Code of Practice to be issued pursuant to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 (also known as the ‘Spy Cops’ Bill).
Read morePR: CWJ Comment on Cressida Dick's Resignation
Harriet Wistrich, director of Centre for Women's Justice, commenting on the news of Cressida Dick’s resignation
Read morePR: Police misogyny: Why won’t Priti Patel act?
CWJ’s comments on Priti Patel’s Home Affairs Select Committee statement re yesterday’s IOPC report into the behaviour of officers based in Charing Cross ,
Read moreChild sexual exploitation Inquiry misses opportunity to adequately tackle criminal justice failures
“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.
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