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This is a grave wrong that has been allowed to fester for too long

Dame Vera’s public intervention on indefinite jail sentences is an unusual but necessary one, as official redress is long overdue

The Independent UK

Urgent call for PM to end the hidden injustice in British prisons

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: As judges begin to overturn indefinite jail terms handed to children and young people – and hundreds more cases are being reviewed – Vera Baird, chair of the miscarriages of justice watchdog, demands that Andy Burnham take ‘wholesale’ action to address the scandal.…

The Independent UK

Teen trapped for 20 years on indefinite jail term should have served 18 months, judges rule

Jay Davis is among six prisoners languishing on IPP jail terms to have their sentences quashed last week

The Independent UK

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Miscarriage of justice watchdog investigates cases of 175 people handed abolished indefinite jail terms

Eight out of 12 cases sent to the Court of Appeal have resulted in controversial IPP and DPP jail terms being quashed, reduced or substituted

The Independent UK

Miscarriage of justice watchdog chief quits after public confidence ‘badly damaged’

Karen Kneller resigns from Criminal Cases Review Commission, heavily criticised for bungling of Andrew Malkinson case

The Guardian - UK

He’s fighting to clear his name for murder he says he didn’t commit. But star witness still hasn’t been contacted

Exclusive: In almost 18 months, the CCRC has failed to speak to a key witness who Jason Moore believes could overturn his conviction. A bishop found him in a matter of weeks

The Independent UK

Women treated like meat and subjected to unjustified strip searches in police custody, damning report finds

‘The only reason they did what they did was to degrade me ... If I was a man, I don’t think they would’ve done it,’ one woman tells inquiry into Greater Manchester Police

The Independent UK

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Labour to give police emergency powers to charge domestic abuse suspects

Crime crackdown plan also gives victims of rape and sexual assault the right to specialist support throughout justice process

The Guardian - UK

‘Inevitable’ prison spaces will run out as judges ‘delay sentencings’ to avoid overwhelming system

Exclusive: Ministers playing ‘game of brinksmanship’ with prison places, governors association warns

The Independent UK

UK’s ‘broken’ criminal justice system is in ‘chaos’, former victims’ tsar warns

Exclusive: Dame Vera Baird accuses ministers of seeking to avoid criticim of ‘poor’ policies by failing to appoint new victims commissioner

The Independent UK

Record number of trials adjourned over failure to bring suspects from prison to court

Exclusive: Defendants stuck in custody vans miles from court while victims, witnesses, lawyers and police spend wasted hours awaiting them at ‘untold’ cost

The Independent UK

Police ask experts to try and recover missing CCTV of woman who claims she was raped in custody

Computer forensics experts asked to try to trace vital footage

The Independent UK

Home Office treatment of children 'a gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

Daily Mirror

Lancashire Police to conduct review over Nicola Bulley investigation after concerns raised

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was 'concerned' that private information about Nicola had been made public as the former victims' commissioner accused the force of making a 'dreadful error'

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Nottingham Post

Nicola Bulley police to be investigated if they 'broke law' in releasing alcohol struggle details

The Information Commissioner is to ask Lancashire Police how they came to put this information into public domain

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab blocked victims’ commissioner’s reappointment

Exclusive: campaigners criticise failure to fill role after Dame Vera Baird’s departure

Chronicle Live

Victims' Commissioner Vera Baird quits post and accuses ministers of 'downgrading' interests

The former Labour MP was originally appointed to the post championing victims’ rights in 2019, but said that unlike her predecessor Dominic Raab, she was not offered an automatic second term

The Independent UK

Victims’ Commissioner quits, saying she has been ‘sidelined’

Dame Vera Baird accused ministers of ‘downgrading’ victims’ interests in the Government’s priorities.

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Evening Standard

Rape victims give up fight for justice as court delays worsen

Dame Vera Baird QC said the ‘endless, endemic delays’ that rape complainants often face were already ‘driving many to drop their claims altogether’

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