It sets out a blueprint for improving decision-making in Magistrates’ Courts to:

📉 Reverse this over-use of pre-trial detention

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Increase the diversity of the magistracy, &

⚖️ Improve fairness overall.

Read more: bit.ly/4nscTjX (3/3)

JUSTICE previously found evidence showing people are being imprisoned awaiting trial without proper legal reasons given for holding them.

Our new report outlines urgent reforms to address these problems. (2/3)

JUSTICE urges Peers to support Lord Vaux’s amendments, to i) restrict the use of force to things, not people in the Bill itself, or ii) remove it entirely. (4/4)

Read more: justice.org.uk/briefings/pu...

The Government’s verbal reassurances that force will only be used on things rather than people aren’t good enough; it is what is written in the law that counts.

This dangerously broad clause would give the DWP the right to use force against people too. (3/4)

One of the most draconian things the law can do is empower the state to use force on people & property. Many benefits recipients experience vulnerabilities & a recent inquiry found the DWP’s safeguarding of vulnerable people “deficient” – this power would risk further harm (2/4)

The police are entrusted with keeping the public safe. That trust must be earned - and it must be accountable.

Full story here: bit.ly/46I0mUN

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The police cannot self-regulate. The Met must publicly & unequivocally accept the Casey Review's findings - that it is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic - and the gov't must urgently review how police accountability can be improved. [3/4]

While the footage is shocking, it is not new: repeated investigations document systemic failures in how police treat racialised communities and women, and warn of a culture of institutional defensiveness - something the documentary shows remains deeply entrenched. [2/4]