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New study to map fairness of EU criminal justice systems
Fair Trials International and EuroMoS announced the launch of a joint pan-European research project: “Advancing EU Defence Rights”.
What they don’t teach law students: Lawyering, by David Segal
The lesson today — the ins and outs of closing a deal — seems lifted from Corporate Lawyering 101.
Legal aid cuts: hitting the vulnerable
Ministry of Justice plans to replace law centres and advisers with telephone 'gateway' will decimate social welfare law, critics say.
France: Conseil Constitutionnel found the April 2011 reform of the garde à vue constitutional, by Jackie Hodgson
For the moment, this is the end of the line for French criminal lawyers who have challenged the new garde à vue regime.
Prison numbers in England and Wales hit fresh record
The prison population in England and Wales has increased by almost 200 in a week, taking it to a new all-time high of 87,945.
The innocent inmates in Europe's overburdened prisons
Thousands of people who have never been convicted of any crime are being held in overburdened prisons across Europe with some remaining in squalid conditions for years before being put on trial, according to a report out today.
Fair trial rights: EU governments agree on the right to information in criminal proceedings
EU Member State representatives today agreed on a draft law that will ensure defendants’ right to information in criminal proceedings wherever they are in the EU.
