Joint enterprise
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Exclusive: Research suggests prosecutions and convictions of secondary suspects have risen since 2016 judgment
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Case of 21-year-old autistic man has received support from MPs and human rights activists
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The deportation of an autistic black man is an indictment of the UK’s racist justice system
Micha Frazer-CarrollOsime Brown was convicted when he was a teenager. Now, at 21, he’s due to be flown to Jamaica, says Micha Frazer-Carroll, columnist at the Independent
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Court of appeal’s judgment criticised by campaigners seeking changes to ‘joint enterprise’ rules
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Motion calls for review two years after supreme court ruled laws have been misinterpreted
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Leading judges announce decision in first appeals brought since landmark ruling raised possibility of unsafe convictions
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Report by academics and the Prison Reform Trust calls for improved guidance for judges after supreme court ruling
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In test challenge to so-called foresight rule, lawyers say Lewis and Asher Johnson did not know co-accused would use knife
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The law may have made sense when it first jailed two horse-cart killers, but more recently it has convicted young defendants, whose connection to crimes was tangential at best
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Janet Wilson says supreme court ruling bolsters ‘strong’ case for Jordan Cunliffe, who was 15 when convicted with two others for murder of Garry Newlove
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Editorial: Laws used against gang members need to be above the suspicion of unfairness. The supreme court has removed a stain from the rules of evidence
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My blind son was jailed for being at the scene of a murder. Halt this tide of joint enterprise convictions