Posts by Nadiyah Akoo
Joint Enterprise on Trial
Joint Enterprise on Trial 📢 Joint Enterprise on Trial APPEAL’s Racial Justice Lead, Dr Nisha Waller, and Racial Justice Researcher, Tehreem Sultan, will be launching their report: Joint Enterprise on Trial on 26 June 2025. A rare, inside look at how joint enterprise is being used in serious criminal trials at London’s Old Bailey. Based on…
Read More‘Eminently winnable’: new campaign to properly compensate the wrongly convicted – The Justice Gap Article
‘Eminently winnable’: new campaign to properly compensate the wrongly convicted A new campaign to scrap the ‘brutal’ miscarriage of justice compensation arrangements has been called ‘eminently winnable’ by a former minister in the government that introduced the legislation. In Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday – the day after the campaign launch – Sir David Davis MP…
Read MoreCCRC: ‘The only organisation yet to emerge from Covid’ – The Justice Gap Article
CCRC: ‘The only organisation yet to emerge from Covid’ The meeting of the Justice Committee took place on 29 April 2025, with CCRC representatives Karen Kneller and Amanda Pearce, focussing on the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). The committee examined the CCRC’s operations, its processes for reviewing potential miscarriages of justice, and…
Read MoreJ’Accuse…!
Reflecting on Justice APPEAL at the J’Accuse…! Exhibition APPEAL’s Co-Director, Matt Foot, with Sculptor, Nicole Farhi and Journalist Torin Douglas On 1st May 2025, APPEAL Co-Director Matt Foot took part in a powerful conversation at Pitzhanger Gallery alongside acclaimed fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi, whose latest exhibition, J’Accuse…!, explores the devastating impact of miscarriages…
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