News Archive

The following news items are the most recent items of Forum news (from late July 2008 onwards) and are also displayed on the homepage.

15 December 2008
Government responds to the independent review of restraint in juvenile custody settings.


10 December 2008
Government publishes a progress report on implementing the recommendations of the Corston Review of Women with Particular Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System.


10 December 2008
House of Lords gives judgment in a test case on the Article 2 ECHR duties owed to detained patients by detaining authorities (Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2008] UKHL 74)


8 December 2008
Justice Minister announces appointment of Chair of the Independent Advisory Council on Deaths in Custody


3 December 2008
A Coroners and Justice Bill is included in today's Queen's Speech.


26th November 2008
House of Lords dismisses the Government's appeal in a test case on the investigation of near-deaths (R (JL) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] UKHL 68)


27 October 2008
Forum Chair calls on the government to scrap means-testing in providing legal representation to bereaved families in coroners' inquests.


14 October 2008
The Government announces plans to drop the controversial 'secret inquests' provisions from the Counter Terrorism Bill.


29 September 2008
Royal College of Psychiatrists publish their multi-agency research report 'Standards on the use of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983'.


10th September 2008
Independent Police Complaints Commission publish "Police Custody as a "Place of Safety": Examining the Use of Section 136 of the Mental Healt Act 1983".


18th August 2008
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales publish their Action Plan following the inquest into the death of Gareth Price at HMYOI Lancaster Farms.


21st July
IPCC publishes its Annual Report 2007/08.


The following section contains previous Forum news items dating from September 2007.

  • 21st July 2008
    IPCC Chair Nick Hardwick welcomes the Ministry of Justice decision to implement the Fulton recommendations. Read the IPCC news release

  • 21st July 2008
    IPCC publishes 2007/08 statistics on deaths during or following police contact, showing an overall decrease in fatalities compared to 2006/07. Read the report

  • 2nd April 2008
    INQUEST publishes its new research study, Dying on the Inside, an examination of women's deaths in prison between 1990 and 2007. For more information or to purchase, visit INQUEST's website

  • 28th March 2008
    Of Vital Importance (an article on the Forum's work) is published in Criminal Justice Management magazine. Read the Article (pdf, 246 Kb)