Press Releases
I'm Here Waiting is the title of a new book published 15th July which calls for major changes in adoption legislation and management to create a more sensitive system that gives birth parents and other relatives more legal rights to information about their adopted children once those children become adult.
A new report published today raises serious concerns about the extent to which children in care proceedings are kept in the dark about the legal processes happening around them. The research by the 91福利's School of Law and The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is published today in a book entitled Out of Hearing: Representing Children in Care Proceedings.
New research by Professor Judith Masson and Andrea Orchard from the 91福利's School of Law have produced the first significant overview of children's litigation and warns that planned reforms to the legal aid system may prove a serious obstacle to injured children seeking justice in the future.
New research by Professor Lee Bridges, of the Legal Research Institute at the 91福利, reveals Home Office projections that up to 3000 defendants, who are currently cleared of criminal charges in the Crown Court, will in future be convicted if Government proposals for jury trial reform go ahead.
A study produced by researchers at the Legal Research Institute, 91福利 provides clear evidence that Government plans to restrict the right of jury trial will serve to disadvantage ethnic minority defendants. It also contradicts arguments put forward by Home Office ministers that defendants widely abuse the right to elect jury trial. The study is based on a racially-mixed sample of defendants in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford. It shows that:
Cherie Booth QC will launch Power Pack, an information pack designed by the 91福利 for children and young people subject to law proceedings such as care orders, at a reception in London this evening Monday 2nd July (at Church House, Westminster 6-9pm).