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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...

07.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to @laurajanes.bsky.social for her appointment as the new Chair of @prisonlawyersapl.bsky.social. Pretty disgraceful that it has taken over 15 years to get the first female Chair of APL but Laura always has been a trailblazer.

09.04.2025 13:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Buy tickets – Justice delayed is justice denied: how to bring damages claims for delays in Parole cases – No.5 Chambers As the latest Parole Board annual report acknowledges, the number of compensation claims is on the rise. The report suggests ...

Next APL Event: Justice delayed is justice denied: how to bring damages claims for delays in Parole cases

Tue 8 Apr 2025 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM No.5 Chambers, WC2R 0EX

Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/assoc...

14.03.2025 09:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now getting a great case law update from Stephen Tawiah @33bedfordrow.bsky.social and Hamish Arnott @bhattmurphy.bsky.social

31.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Now hearing from the Legal Aid Agency on prison law

31.01.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chief operations officer at the Parole Board tells us that people serving IPPs make up around 20% of the case load, there are no “easy” cases left and the Board is taking steps to give these cases special attention. They are ready to process around 600 termination cases when the law changes in Feb

31.01.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First up we have an update from the Parole Board….

31.01.2025 11:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our annual conference is underway with a welcome from our chair Rikki Garg

31.01.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TODAY IS THE DAY - looking forward to sharing ideas and knowledge with colleagues...

31.01.2025 08:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 BOOKINGS OPEN for our 2025 Conference

When: Friday 31 Jan
Where: Doughty Street Chambers, London

Book here

www.tickettailor.com/events/assoc...

14.01.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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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

08.12.2024 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📢 Save the date! Our annual conference will be on 31 January 2025 in London

25.11.2024 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Productive @prisonlawyersapl.bsky.social committee meeting earlier today. Lots to look ahead to including meetings with Ministers to push for an increase in fees and our annual conference in the NY organised by the unrelenting @laurajanes.bsky.social

22.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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