I can’t believe this day actually arrived!!!! Still pinching myself. Thanks to everyone who made this happen - now go and buy a copy!#youthjusticelawandpractice Just for Kids Law Dr LauraJanes Youth Justice Legal Centre Esther Shauneen Lambe Jennifer Twite Legal Action Group

"We need a Youth Justice League!" 🦸‍♀️💪⚖️ Ahead of the Youth Justice Legal Centre #YJSummit19 Kate Aubrey-Johnson writes for The CBA on the need for specialist lawyers to make sure no opportunities are missed for diverting children from the criminal justice system: criminalbar.com/resources/news…

#YJSummit19 is underway! Kate Aubrey-Johnson opens the event. "All other professionals working with children – doctors, teachers, social workers - have specialist training. They have colleagues with whom to share knowledge - a club to belong to. This makes them better at their jobs."

Congratulations to Greg Stewart & Mel Stooks on jointly receiving the Youth Justice Legal Centre 2019 Youth Justice Champions Award! #YJSummit19

I know it's two months old but it's still shocking. The number of #legalaid legal help cases started 2009-10 was 933,815. New cases started 2017-18 141,053. Arithmetic calculation for this year 136,138. See table 5.1 second doc: gov.uk/government/sta… Next stats out 27 June.

Youth justice law and practice update from Just for Kids Law's Kate Aubrey-Johnson and Jennifer Twite lag.org.uk/?id=206435

Legal challenge to protect child informants from ‘exploitation’ by police: Just for Kids Law launch new action against Home Office for failing to protect children used as 'spies' under powers contained in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 thejusticegap.com/legal-challeng…

Asked this morning to respond to the popular democratic critique of human rights, Singh LJ points to this statement by Lady Hale as the most significant judicial statement on democracy (and directs us all to his own thoughts, here: judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…) #ReithLectures

Should the Lords be able to talk on promoting global gender equality while women are ineligible to stand it its by-elections because they are women? Anne Jenkin Baroness Berridge Mary Goudie Ruth Deech Cabinet Office #endboysonly

More than 150 wrongly convicted people exonerated in US last year, according to Natl. Registry of Exonerations. At least 107 had convictions overturned because of 'official misconduct' - most common 'misconduct' was police & prosecution concealing exculpatory evidence thejusticegap.com/more-than-150-…

Thank you @riachatter and ITV London for highlighting the suffering caused by the NRPF policy tonight

'Families are trapped in poverty, forced into debt & left living in unsafe, insecure housing' Caz Hattam explains why TheUnityProject is supporting today's high court challenge to Home Office brutal 'no recourse to public funds' policy Deighton Pierce Glynn IMPACT Law for Social Justice dpglaw.co.uk/home-office-fa…

Good luck everyone involved in today's high court challenge to HomeOffice's brutal 'no recourse to public funds' policy TheUnityProject AdamHundt Deighton Pierce Glynn AlexGoodman Landmark Chambers Project 17 Public Law Project IMPACT Law for Social Justice dpglaw.co.uk/home-office-fa…

Today, an 8-yr-old British boy,supported by his migrant mum, will ask the highcourt to scrap Home Office brutal 'no recourse to public funds' policy,which denies families like his access to welfare safety net TheUnityProject Deighton Pierce Glynn IMPACT Law for Social Justice Landmark Chambers dpglaw.co.uk/home-office-fa…

Hear Deighton Pierce Glynn Adam Hundt explain in 30 seconds (with no hesitation & only a bit of repetition....) what today's high court challenge to HomeOffice's 'no recourse to public funds' policy is all about....TheUnityProject IMPACT Law for Social Justice soundcloud.com/user-862598786…

We are honoured to be part of such an ace team of lawyers & campaigners fighting to end this brutal policy, which is denying families access to the welfare safety net....

Great news from the High Court this morning! But our work in ending the cruelty of #NRPF is not over just yet! Read on: /1

⁦Untold Story Hull⁩ training with ⁦⁦IMPACT Law for Social Justice⁩ on this beautiful sunny day in Hull

Thanks Untold Story Hull Amanda Hailes Susie Winter, Maggie & Emma for making Shauneen Lambe Fiona Bawdon so welcome & being such incredible, inspiring women (& also for the avocado...). We❤️working with you......Shout out to ChrisannJarrett We Belong for her support

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