We have been saying for sometime that in relation to sexual abuse and historical sexual allegations that we should all be very concerened about the abuse of process to get results. Any allegation on it’s own is simply that an allegation and should be dealt with as such.
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On Wednesday1 April 2026 Edinburgh Filmhouse are screening two award-winning short films After Eight: The Story of Satpal Ram and Murewa Satpal Ram was 19 years old when he was attacked in a restaurant in Lozells, Birmingham in November 1986. He was eating a meal with two friends in a Bengali restaurant when a group directed […]
Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the passing of the long-in-the-making Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill, it is time to take stock of what this “landmark” exercise in law-making actually delivers. The purpose of this legislation, we’re told, is to place the interests of victims at the heart of the […]
From The Guardian online, today, we reproduce the striking findings of research undertaken by our London colleagues, Appeal, into the use of the “joint enterprise” doctrine by prosecutors in England and Wales. Our friends at JENGbA have been tirelessly campaigning about this for years. This is not an issue unique to England and Wales. In […]