Stefan Cross Centre’s Annual Lecture on ‘Challenging Sex Discrimination Within the Criminal Justice System’ by Harriet Wistrich at University of Southampton [Hybrid; Feb 27; Free]: Register Now!

In regards to the Stefan Cross Centre’s Annual Lecture

This yr’s speak “Difficult Intercourse Discrimination Throughout the Felony Justice System” will probably be given by Harriet Wistrich on Thursday twenty seventh February 2025 at 18:00 GMT on Highfield Campus, and by way of Zoom.

In regards to the Stefan Cross Centre

The Stefan Cross Centre was launched in 2018 with a beneficiant donation from Southampton Legislation College alumnus, Mr Stefan Cross KC. The aim of the Centre is to lift consciousness of discrimination in opposition to ladies and ladies, examine the causes of this discrimination and search efficient options.

In regards to the Speaker

Harriet Wistrich has not too long ago printed her memoir “Sister in Legislation: Combating for Justice in a System Designed by Males,” by which she shares her intensive expertise of representing ladies let down by the justice system.

Utilizing examples from her work she’s going to illustrate how the legislation and its interpretation have been primarily based on a male expertise which frequently doesn’t work for ladies, whether or not they’re victims or suspects.

Harriet is the founder and director of the Centre for Ladies’s Justice, a multi-partner organisation geared toward bringing circumstances holding the state to account in relation to violence in opposition to ladies and ladies. She can be a solicitor working with the famend civil liberties agency Birnberg Peirce and Companions.

Harriet gained the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Yr award 2014, she was named Authorized Assist Lawyer of the Yr 2018, and Legislation Society authorized persona of the yr 2019.  She based the marketing campaign group Justice for Ladies, and is trustee of the charity The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize.

She acted for DSD and NBV within the Supreme Court docket case in opposition to the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, which has established an obligation to research underneath Article 3 ECHR.  She additionally acted for a similar claimants in a profitable judicial evaluation problem of the parole board resolution to launch John Worboys. 

Harriet acted for the claimants, younger ladies previously pimped into prostitution, in a problem of the Disclosure and Barring Scheme requirement that they disclose legal convictions for soliciting.

She has additionally acted for a variety of ladies in appeals in opposition to convictions for the homicide of their violent companions, most not too long ago Sally Challen, counting on new proof of coercive and controlling behaviour. She additionally represented ladies who had been deceived into relationships with undercover cops, acquiring an unprecedented apology for a gaggle of eight ladies.

The way to Register?

These considering attending might reserve a ticket via Eventbrite, the hyperlink to which is talked about on the finish of this put up. There’s a alternative of attending in particular person, or by way of Zoom.

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Contact

If in case you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the centre by e-mail us utilizing scclaw@soton.ac.uk.

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