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INCU Case Managers Publish Article in Next Issue of INQUIRY
Meg Tollitt and Jessica Pham have written an article for the next issue of INQUIRY which was inspired by a talk them attended at the
Cambridge Law Faculty by Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle. The article will be published in the summer here:
http://www.innocencenetwork.org.uk/inquiry
FILM SHOWING TODAY - Rex Bloomstein's "LIFER, LIVING WITH MURDER"!
The University’s Innocence Project is screening both parts of Rex Bloomstein’s “LIFER, LIVING WITH MURDER” TODAY at 5pm in LG18, Law Faculty. Rex will introduce his work (which has never previously been screened in this format) and will take questions after the screening. All welcome!
'In the Name of the Father', Monday 28 Jan, 5-7pm, LG18 Faculty of Law. Mark Shelley (of Shelley & Co solicitors, here in Cambridge) will explore the practical challenges facing
solicitors when representing clients in the police station. He will be accompanied by two recently qualified
solicitors who will be happy to answer questions on careers in criminal law. INCU has been invited to attend a special one-day casework workshop on miscarriages of justice. Several members of INCU attended a talk by death row survivors, Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle. The event was intensely emotional and inspiring. Members of the Project are currently writing an article about the event, which they hope to publish in INUK’s quarterly newsletter. A new report has been published by PRT and Inquest: "Fatally flawed: Has the state learned lessons from the deaths of children and young people in prison?": http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Fatally%20Flawed.pdf On Monday 17 September the Howard League for Penal Reform also published a study completed by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield and Jake Phillips on Deaths on Probation: an analysis of data regarding people dying under probation supervision. The full report is available on www.howardleague.org/number-dying-on-probation. Consultation runs from 19 Oct 2012 to 14 Dec 2012. See further: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/ccrc-triennial-review/consult_view |
