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JUSTICE Gives Inspiring Lecture to Aspiring Law Students at Warwick Law School
On 6 October 2017, JUSTICE's Legal Director, Jodie Blackstock, and Membership Coordinator, Rumina Ali, spoke to Warwick Law Students about JUSTICE's remit to promote and uphold the rule of law, its legal heritage, programme of law reform work and interventions on behalf of its membership comprising all branches of the legal profession. For further information about JUSTICE, please visit their website.
JUSTICE staff was also joined by CJC colleagues Professor Jackie Hodgson (an elected member of the JUSTICE Council), and doctoral researcher Natalie Kyneswood, who discussed her career to date and her collaboration with JUSTICE's 'What is a Trial' Working Party as part of her ESRC funded Ph.D. (supervised by Jackie Hodgson and Vanessa Munro). Further information about the collaboration is available here.
JUSTICE has collaborated with the CJC in previous research and impact projects. In 2012 Jodie Blackstock and Jackie Hodgson delivered a policy briefing in Brussels regarding the implementation of best practice on police station advice, and training in Edinburgh for lawyers delivering custodial legal advice to suspects held in police custody in Scotland. They also collaborated on a major four country EC funded empirical study of suspects’ right in police custody (Inside Police Custody). For more about Inside Policy Custody see JUSTICE's website.
Natalie Kyneswood Awarded Midland Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship
CJC Researcher, Natalie Kyneswood has been awarded a prestigious ESRC doctoral scholarship from the newly formed Midland Graduate School to examine the implementation of special measures in collaboration with the legal profession. Focusing on multi-defendant sex cases, Natalie's Ph.D. will investigate the impact of pre-recorded evidence on the quality and credibility of evidence, trial procedure, substantive rights and trial philosophy and whether the recent introduction of pre-recorded cross-examination under s. 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 delivers a fair trial for witnesses as well as defendants. Her methodology involves a 12-month secondment to JUSTICE, working as a co-researcher on JUSTICE's 'What is a Trial?' Working Party, co-producing data on the efficacy of legal reforms, including special measures, and the relevance of adversarial, professional culture from a user perspective to provide recommendations for policymakers and inform her Ph.D. For more information about the 'What is a Trial' Working Party, please visit JUSTICE's website.
Professor Scott Decker to kick off Mannheim Centre Seminar Series 2017-2018
Professor Scott Decker will be speaking about "The Promise of Ethnography: Gangs, Active Offenders and Policy" on 11 October 2017. For further details please see:
Professor Jacqueline S. Hodgson presents paper at conference of the European Society of Criminology 2017
The 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology is currently being held in Cardiff, UK. In today's session, Professor Jacqueline S. Hodgson of the Warwick's Criminal Justice Centre presented a paper titled "The CCRC, the applicant and her lawyer: a disruption of procedural models".
Kim Wade at ALSO and Latitude Festivals
Kim Wade will present her research on false memory at ALSO Festival, as well as Latitude Festival this summer.
“I will discuss how and why our memories become distorted and the most recent developments in false memory science. You may be surprised to learn how malleable your memory is, but don’t worry, you’ll also discover why memory distortions, often, are a very good thing.”