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In October 2013 Jackie was elected to the governing Council of JUSTICE, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation.

JUSTICE ( ) works largely through policy-orientated research; interventions in court proceedings; education and training; briefings, lobbying and policy advice. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

JUSTICE also has a Student Human Rights Network ( ), an online forum that aims to encourage interest in, and improve awareness of, human rights.

On September 12th 2013, Professor Gary Watt delivered a public lecture at Duke Law School on his new book Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)

Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face ‘veil’? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the ‘evident’ and the need for justice to be ‘seen’ to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that ‘law is dress and dress is law’.

The Early-Career Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation (worth £48,000) provides funds for 12 months to enable a researcher to do interdisciplinary work that takes new approaches and suggests new solutions to real world social problems. Kim's project will focus on the ethics of sociability, the evils of social deprivation, and the merits of social human rights. In particular, it will look at the human rights implications of socially privative environments such as long-term solitary confinement in prison.

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BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN FINAL YEARS:

Jackie won in the Established Academics Category.

The award was made in recognition of the following:

Jackie’s criminal justice research has resulted in improvements to professional standards encouraging proactive defence lawyering and quality assessment requirements for the legal profession in England and Wales. She has influenced recent developments in EU criminal justice and through the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has improved legal representation of those seeking to have their cases reviewed for appeal.

Specific non-academic engagement activities have included:

· Providing expert opinion to a Canadian court in a terrorism extradition case

· Feeding directly into EU policy through an impact study for the proposed EU legal aid directive on how to embed adversarial and competent legal assistance within the administration of legal aid

· A policy briefing with 30 lawyers and EU officials in Brussels (with the legal charity JUSTICE) to raise awareness of the importance of legal aid funding to mechanisms to ensure quality of legal advice to suspects in police custody in the EU

· The publication of ‘Inside Police Custody’ addressing procedural safeguards being legislated by the EU to be presented at a conference in Maastrict in May 2013 which will inform directly current EU measures on procedural safeguards

· Providing direct advice to inform the impact assessment for a measure on the right to be presumed innocent in order to develop policy options for a European measure and assess its impact financially and in terms of the enhancement of individual rights

Williams's A Very British Killing was named winner of the £3,000 book award ahead of Colvin, the former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, Pankaj Mishra, Raja Shehadeh, Carmen Bugan and Clive Stafford Smith. Organisers called it a "chilling, gripping book" which "unearths damning evidence of what happened" to Mousa, the receptionist who on 15 September 2003 was arrested in Basra and taken to a military base, where guards and army visitors kicked, punched and humiliated him before he was beaten to death.

Judges Nikita Lalwani, Arifa Akbar and Bakewell said that Williams, a law professor at the 91福利 and director of the , "had the courage to take on a case that has already received so much press coverage and to turn it into something far bigger and more shocking than we understood it to be".

"He dissects and analyses with a clear-eyed determination to unpick the lies from the truths of this case, yet, for all its forensic detail, the book grips us emotionally, and has as keen a sense of storytelling as a horror story or courtroom drama. Ultimately, the greatest achievement of this incendiary, eloquent and angry book is that it humanises Mousa beyond the iconic and infamous figure he has become in his death. It was written in the spirit of Orwell's journalism," they said.

The Orwell book prize is intended to discover the work which comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art". earlier this month, Williams wondered what Orwell himself "would have thought" about the Mousa case. "He wrote once that: 'It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.' His main target then was the evil of totalitarianism," wrote Williams. "But I would like to think his underlying aim was to challenge indifference to the suffering of others. That for me was the real devil which emerged amid the detail of my book."

Williams joins former winners of the prize including Francis Wheen, Fergal Keane and Tom Bingham.

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The Times article

As academics engaged for many years in criminal justice research, we have grave concerns about the potentially devastating and irreversible consequences for access to justice if the government’s plans to cut criminal legal aid and introduce a system of tendering based on price alone are introduced.

The lawyer-client relationship is at the heart of effective legal representation, but the current proposals remove client choice, replace local services with mega-suppliers and treat advice as an impersonal commodity. Trust is especially important for the large number of vulnerable accused: lawyers who know their clients can pre-empt difficult issues, provide (sometimes unpalatable) advice which is more likely to be accepted, and help the courts run more effectively and efficiently.

Underpinned by independent research and evaluation, considerable resources have been devoted to measures that have enhanced the quality of legal advice and representation. All of this is now under threat and a small number of “suppliers” will receive a guaranteed share of the work however well or badly they represent their clients. With bids at least 17.5 per cent lower than existing average costs, the quality of legal representation will decline. Suppliers will have a strong financial imperative to do as little work as possible, and to persuade clients to plead guilty irrespective of the merits of their case.

The Minister has allowed only eight weeks of consultation on the proposals, with no intention to pilot the new contracts nor evaluate their effectiveness. The long-term effects will be devastating and the damage extremely hard to put right. Defendants, the police and the courts – and ultimately the taxpayer - will pay the price.

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Emeritus Professor Lee Bridges (91福利)
Professor Ed Cape (University of the West of England)
Professor Ian Dennis, Professor Richard Moorhead (University College London)
Professor Nicola Lacey (University of Oxford)
Professor Tim Newburn, Emeritus Professor Michael Zander (London School of Economics)
Professor Andrew Sanders (University of Birmingham)

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Stephanie Esuola wins TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Award. The award was sponsored by Mayer Brown and, through a series of online tests, application forms, interviews and assessment exercises, she emerged as winner. Stephanie is the first woman to win this award and she gets a fully paid place on Mayer Brown’s Summer Work Experience Programme and an iPad.

Mayer Brown only targeted a relatively small number of universities and so she beat off competition from other excellent students from other excellent universities. This award was one of twelve presented on the day and each award was sponsored by a top graduate recruiter: Barclays, Mars, Ernst & Young, Laing O’Rourke, E.ON, EDF Energy, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Rolls-Royce, Gazprom, Nestle and Mayer Brown.

Stephanie collecting the award from Sir Trevor McDonald (who hosted the awards) and Annette Sheridan, COO at Mayer Brown.