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Read moreIn the News: Sally Challen appeal: a ‘watershed moment’
Helena Spector from The Justice Gap on our ‘Coercive Control and Criminal Justice’ event last week
Read moreCentre for Women's Justice support David and James’ Challen’s campaign for justice for their mum Sally
Centre for Women’s Justice sign in support of Sally Challen’s appeal
Read moreProsecuting Victims of Trafficking in the UK: The Difference between Law and Practice
Does the UK adhere to its international commitment not to penalise victims of trafficking? Blog from the University of Oxford
Read moreIn the News: Courts 'are silencing women'
Women’s rights campaigners fear a legal backlash against the Me Too movement, in which women have taken to social media to speak out against mistreatment.
Read moreIn the News: Rape Victims 'At Risk' As Police Don't Put Suspects On Bail, Charity Warns
The release of hundreds of thousands of suspected rapists, domestic abusers and other offenders without safeguards to protect victims is to be challenged.
Read moreIn the News: Rape and abuse victims at risk as police fail to put suspects on bail
Centre for Women’s Justice is preparing a supercomplaint against the police service, claiming that it is failing to use protective legal measures that keep victims safe.
Read moreHow Wealthy Men Use The Law to Silence Those That Accuse Them of Abuse
Information from our event on 21st January 2018
Read moreIn the News: 5 Live Investigates - 6,000 police not properly vetted
The number of police officers investigated for abusing their 'power for sexual gains' has more than doubled over a 4 year period - Harriet Wistrich discusses
Read moreIn the News: Lawyer for John Worboys victims dismisses parole reforms
Reforms to the parole system won’t fix the problems highlighted by the John Worboys scandal
Read moreIn the News: Woman found to have defamed ex-husband on Facebook takes fight to Supreme Court
A woman who claimed on Facebook that her ex-husband tried to strangle her is set to fight a judge's ruling that she is guilty of defamation because he wasn't trying to kill her.
Read moreProtest over libel case that has chilling implications for women who speak out over domestic violence
On 24th January at the Supreme Court, Nicola Stocker will appeal a Court of Appeal judgment upholding the decision of Mr Justice Mitting’s which ruled in favour of her ex-husband, Ronald Stocker’s defamation claim against her.
Read moreProtest outside Supreme Court - tomorrow 9.30am
Join us as we support Nicola Stocker Thurs 24th Jan from 9.30am
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Read moreIn The News: Rape victims dropping allegations over fears defence lawyers will use mobile phone data against them
Harriet Wistrich speaks to The Telegraph about victims dropping rape allegations over fears defence lawyers will use personal information on their phones against them
Read moreHow wealthy men use the law to silence those that accuse them of abuse - Event 21st January, London
Join us to discuss how we can challenge the use of libel proceedings and other legal procedures used to protect wealthy men from allegations of abuse.
Read more3rd Femicide Census report published
The 2017 Femicide Census findings
Read moreINQUEST and Centre for Women’s Justice respond to prosecution following the deaths of Khaola Saleem and Raneem Oudeh
“Whilst we are relieved that Tarin has pleaded guilty, this is only the first step in the family’s struggle for justice and accountability.” - Nour Norris, sister of Khoala and aunt of Raneem
Read moreIn the News: What happened next? The lawyer who took on John Worboys – and showed how the justice system fails women
by Paula Cocozza for The Guardian
Read moreMajor new survey: many people still unclear what rape is
The End Violence Against Women Coalition commissioned the YouGov survey of around 4,000 people across Great Britain in order to examine why rape, a very common and extremely harmful crime, is still so difficult to tackle at a time when reports to police are increasing exponentially
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