University of Leeds Justice Project

09/03/2016

Law and Criminal Justice Students:

Are you interested in potential miscarriages of justice? If the answer is yes, the Justice Project may be something you should apply to!

What is the Justice Project?

The Justice Project is an educational project promoting enterprise skills for law and criminal justice students. The Project's aim is to investigate real cases where wrongful convictions are suspected and to ensure that such cases are successfully brought to the attention of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). Students work in groups, reading and responding to letters sent by prisoners to the Project. They advise the prisoners whether the Project team can assist them and why/why not.

If you're interested and would like to apply, please log on to your VLE. From the VLE, access the 'organisations' tab, Click 'Law', 'Personal Development and Careers', 'Pro Bono & Volunteering' and then finally 'School of Law Opportunities'. If you scroll down, you'll be able to find a 'Team application form' and further details as to the application and who to send it to.

The deadline is March 18th 2016 at Midnight! Be sure to submit your applications on time!

If you have any questions about the Project, feel free to send a message!

25/02/2015

Law and Criminal Justice Students: Presentation and Q&A at 4pm today in SR 2.46- if you're thinking about applying to be on the Project next year come along and find out more about the work we do!

18/02/2015

Law and Criminal Justice Students! Interested in applying to volunteer with UoLJP for the next academic year? Tomorrow is your last chance to sign up to our Q&A session on Wednesday 25th February. Come along to talk to the current students and find out more about what we do! Email Herabans at [email protected] to sign up to the event.

06/02/2015

First and second year Law and Criminal Justice students at the University of Leeds: Want to get involved with UoLJP in the academic year 2015/16? Come along to our Q&A session on Wednesday 25th February 4-5 in room 2.45 to find out more about the work we do, the application process and what you can give and gain in return!

19/01/2015

After advertising our work in the Inside Times at Christmas, our teams are very busy sending out application forms to prisoners who are maintaining their innocence this week.

19/11/2014

http://www.leedsuniversityunion.org.uk/groups/16166/ The Howard League for Penal Reform society has now been officially set up. You can sign up here! Don't forget, if you are interested, to attend the first meeting tomorrow - petitions and letters are being signed and written to local MP's to help lift the ban on family members bringing in books for prisoners. That's in the liberty building foyer 12-4 tomorrow.

A charity with over 30,000 student members.

06/11/2014

A new Howard League for Penal Reform society has been set up at UoL - all those interested in penal reform and prisoner justice can get involved by emailing Jess Stanley at [email protected] or Herabans Kaur at [email protected].

06/11/2014

Heard from some very interesting speakers at the CCRC Conference including The Right Honourable Lord Justice Treacy and the Chair of the CCRC Richard Foster CBE.

06/11/2014

One of our student managers will be representing the University of Leeds Justice Project at the CCRC Stakeholders' Conference in London today!

04/11/2014

This is a useful source for all Project members and those interested in miscarriages of justices... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/16/inside-justice-miscarriage-list-online-archive-films

Films of BBC's Rough Justice and Channel 4's Trial and Error serve as reminder of how long some waited for case to be heard, writes Duncan Campbell

22/10/2014

The Project's office is located in The Liberty Building... The 5th most impressive law school building in the world!

50 of the world's most impressive law school buildings.

22/10/2014

The recently renamed University of Leeds Justice Project is back up and running for the 2014-15 academic year. We have three student managers and a new team of students who are dedicated to assisting innocent prisoners with their applications to the CCRC.