16th April 2018
Jocelyn Cockburn is a partner and joint head of the civil liberties team at London law firm, Hodge Jones & Allen. She has been Mr. Lawrence’s solicitor since April 2004, when he instructed the firm to challenge the decision made by the Crown Prosecution Service that nobody would face prosecution for the murder of Stephen….
3rd April 2018
Neville Lawrence has today issued the following statement re: the Undercover Policing Inquiry through his solicitors, Hodge Jones & Allen: “I have grave concerns about how Chairman Mitting has been handling the anonymity applications by police officers, consistently granting them anonymity after hearing evidence behind closed doors and disclosing almost nothing to the lawyers representing…
15th March 2018
The jury at an inquest into the death of a prisoner at HMP Norwich today concluded that failings in the care provided by the prison contributed to his death. 36-year-old Joe Bartlett from Colchester in Essex tragically died on 5th April 2017 after being found in his cell with a ligature around his neck. The…
20th February 2018
Following an inquest into the death of a 50-year-old inmate at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in March 2016, the coroner last month issued a Regulation 28 Preventing Future Deaths Report to the Governor of the prison. The Regulation 28 report is the highest level of response available to a coroner. The jury at the inquest into…
9th February 2018
Newly-published responses from Carillion and the HM Prison and Probation Service reveal government contracts ignored national policy, allowing untrained Carillion staff to work with ‘at-risk’ prisoners Newly-published documents relating to the death of a 27-year-old man in HMP Winchester reveal that HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) failed to include in its contracts the requirement…
