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Leanne Robinson

Leanne Robinson

“Children don’t appreciate they are in court, not on a computer game”

How can it be that vulnerable child defendants have ended up participating in important court hearings via a video screen? Recently a…

Jun 26, 2018

Jun 26, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Knife Crime: can we save the lost boys?

My children are inner-city twenty-somethings. Two of the most recent London stabbings happened within half a mile of our home in Kentish…

Jun 26, 2018

Jun 26, 2018

Leanne Robinson

We need to talk about Keres & Co

“Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken” is a great book. It sets out all the major problems facing the criminal justice system, many of…

Apr 9, 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Police and court bail policy is a mess

On the face of it, the story broken by the BBC today is alarming — thousands of suspected rapists and murderers are loose on the streets…

Apr 9, 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Remand by skype — the dystopian future for an already broken system

Imagine being imprisoned on remand in relation to a crime you did not commit on the basis of a 3 ½ minute “pitch” by a prosecutor whose…

Apr 9, 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Guilty until proved innocent — the assumption behind the latest government consultation

One of the reasons for the disclosure problems that have recently come to light is said to be a police culture of always believing the…

Apr 9, 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Court closures — are they selling the family silver?

If making a tidy sum from the sale of every court were the aim of the court closure programme, it doesn’t seem to be going very well. A…

Mar 14, 2018

Mar 14, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Do charities believe in the principle of rehabilitation?

The reputation of aid charities has had a terrible battering recently. They are wounded and need to restore trust. So they are looking at…

Mar 14, 2018

Mar 14, 2018

Leanne Robinson

And get me to the court, get me to the court, for Gawd’s sake, get me to the court on time

FTA is the bane of a police officer’s life. If a defendant doesn’t turn up for their court appointment, they have failed to appear (FTA)…

Mar 14, 2018

Mar 14, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Court closures — trying to get a quart into a pint pot?

How many courts do you need to close before the system grinds to a halt? Ever since the government took over the ownership of courts from…

Mar 14, 2018

Mar 14, 2018

Leanne Robinson

Leanne Robinson

Research Assistant at Transform Justice, UK charity working for a fair, humane, open and effective justice system.

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