The Louise Casey report is damning indictment of the Met police and her findings in relation to misogyny and sexual misconduct echo what we have seen in the police super-complaint we submitted two and a half years ago.

Applications are now being accepted for The Azra Kemal Legal Internship Programme. The successful applicant will get to work alongside our talented lawyers for a 6month paid placement. This is an amazing opportunity to kickstart a career in the legal profession.

An evidence review commissioned by Centre for Women’s Justice has found that children born as a result of rape are at risk of suffering serious and long-term harm due to the distressing circumstances of their birth, from infancy well into later life

In this new report, CWJ offers insights from women with lived experience and frontline practitioners in an examination of the approach taken by local agencies in the West Midlands in relation to victims of domestic abuse who are accused of offending.

Welcome to the bumper Summer edition of the CWJ newsletter! We've loads to update you on below, including some fantastic opportunities to join the team!

Nominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize and Centre for Women’s Justice Award 2022!

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Domestic abuse perpetrators are manipulating the justice system to extend their control over victims, so concludes a new major report published by Centre for Women’s Justice today.

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.

For one week only your donation is doubled! Help us provide legal advice to survivors of male violence so that they can appeal wrongful convictions and unjust sentences.

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.

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).

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 ,