Girls in Custody: Exploring the Harms Doughty Street Chambers, 54 Doughty Street, WC1N 2LS Tuesday 20th May 2025 5:30PM @thehowardleague.bsky.social & @nayouthjustice.bsky.social event www.ticketsource.co.uk/natonal-asso...

This would never have happened without the determination of bereaved families to see an end to the inequality and injustice families face after deaths in state detention. A stepping stone but more to be done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👀 Hurry!!! Sign up to our next SOS #youthjustice next Tuesday 1 April 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/youth-prac...?

First magnolias

Calling #legalaid & legal advice sector colleagues on #iwd2025 to sign up to the new #menopause support network PAMELA Planning for a launch event soon with the fantastic @katemuir.bsky.social Link to sign up 👇

Congratulations to @emily--jones.bsky.social on her appointment as Professor of Practice in Public Policy 🎉 We are so proud of Emily and look forward to seeing the impact she'll continue to make in this new role. #publicpolicy #BSG

Raindrop snowdrop

Pelican sunset, St James’ park

We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe. #HolocaustMemorialDay

New year, new initiative Remember (if you can!) to sign up for PAMELA - the new #legalaid #perimenopaise and #menopause support network - we are gathering a great list of legal aid and advice sector workers who want to be part of this and I am working on a launch event... forms.gle/m5FSekXaY21E...

📢 BOOKINGS OPEN for our 2025 Conference When: Friday 31 Jan Where: Doughty Street Chambers, London Book here www.tickettailor.com/events/assoc...

PAMELA, the new #perimenopause and #menopause #legalaid support network has been picked up by the Canadian legal press! www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/interna...

Wow! This exhibition will be such a treat!

NEW BLOG on Probation Reset with link to the practitioner guidance gained via FOIA laurakjanes.co.uk/blog/operati...

Use of Force Policy Framework - UPDATED assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/677e5d...

We have a copy of this book to give away. To be in with a chance to win, repost this message Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2025 Winner, randomly chosen, will be announced on 17th January

My article for Inside Time on further changes to prison release rules insidetime.org/information/...

Welcome @wearelapg.bsky.social I have added LAPG to the starter pack below If anyone else wants to join - message me...

I have created a #starterpack on access to #justice and #legalaid - message me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/J6g9H4r

Happy new year

PAMELA, the new #perimenopause and #menopause #legalaid support network has been picked up by the Canadian legal press! www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/interna...

Seasons greetings with a lovely winter #mushroom

Winter sky

Help us bring Christmas to older and vulnerable residents! We've now raised £10,000 for this year's Big H&F Christmas Day Lunch. There's still time to donate – can you help us get to £45,000? Donate here: hfgiving.org.uk/big-hf-chris...

Great to see PAMELA covered in the Law Society Gazette - thank you @monidipafouzder.bsky.social www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/new-men...

Remaining in prison a year after allegations were dropped, IPP prisoner Haydar Jefferies took his own life. Cormac Mcdonough & Megan Finnis supported the family in pursuing justice with jury finding institutional neglect & multiple failures contributed to his tragic death www.hja.net/news-and-ins...

I have created a #starterpack on access to #justice and #legalaid - message me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/J6g9H4r

Introducing PAMELA The #Perimenopause And #Menopause #Legalaid support network Find out more and sign up here 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Lovely #fungi

ICYMI futher changes to *automatic* release from #prison at 40% point in force from 16 Dec 2024 and HDC to be further extended to up to a maximum of one year on #tag in eleigible cases from 3 June 2025 via The Home Detention Curfew and Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods (Amendment) Order 2024

In London and looking for something lovely to do dannylang.co.uk/london-indep...

Bunnies outside prison this morning

Gorgeous sunlight on yesterday morning's run

Last chance to book for this event tomorrow...

As the countdown to #christmas begins, I am thinking about what that means for people on #IPP sentences, both inside and out of prison www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Autumn sunshine

Anyone aware of research on what life on electronic tag is actually like? I have written here about how one of my clients on an IPP sentence experiences it... www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Looking forward to @youthpractitioners.bsky.social event on Tuesday on new Early Release provisions from prison, how they affect children and what to do if things go wrong... still a few tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Powerful presentation by Dr John Wainright on the impact of structural racism and the prevalence of systemic whiteness on children #youthjustice

Congratulations to @heidialexander.bsky.social on her new appointment - she was an excellent #legalaid minister who had made a great start with her promise to nurse the sector back to health and was really listening. We look forward to working with her successor.

Fantastic energy today at the NAYJ annual #youthjustice conference in #Manchester: brilliant speakers with bold ideas for change - follow @nayouthjustice.bsky.social to find out more

Spoke to Sky about mums going to prison and the way our legal system punishes individuals for failures in our social safety net. ♦️60% of women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse ♦️A third of women in prison grew up in care Time to stop funding prisons and fund community services instead.

Looking for ideas for that Office Christmas get together? Come on my West End independent shops tour and sort the secret Santa out at the same time! dannylang.co.uk/london-indep... #officechristmasparty #thingstodoinlondon #secretsanta

This is an exceptionally moving and brilliant book

It was great to mark #worldchildrensday at @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social children's rights conference at UCL and talk about Dare to Care - a guide presenting care experienced people in the criminal justice system www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Just put up some of the architectural highlights of my new tour here: dannylang.co.uk/architecture...

Fantastic closing by Mrs Justice May, judicial lead for children. It’s not about being “soft” but about complying with the law which says the welfare of the child is a principal aim, & requires us to understand the reasons (not excuses) for behaviour #worldchildrensday @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social

Charlie Taylor @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social conference on the current state of youth custody states that it was not what he intended when he proposed the secure school, which was to be instead of YOIs. We now have 4 types of custody, with 4 different inspection frameworks for around 400 children