Prof Gráinne McKeever

Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment... Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social

Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30
📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313
Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py

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Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glad to see this! Justice Secretary has said the government will not reintroduce tribunal fees, contrary to recent reports, noting that ‘Everyone, no matter their income, should be able to get access to justice to challenge unfair behaviour at work’ www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/lammy-r...

Friday treat: this whole - Open Access - collection edited by @conormccormick.bsky.social, David Capper and Norma Dawson has a wonderful, eclectic mix of chapters to delight all those interested in the history of constitutional change.

Removing benefits from those with indefinite leave to remain will leave 100,000s of families facing destitution. And if you think that mass impaired child development, a mental and physical health crisis is in the national interest, I'm afraid you simply aren't thinking things through.

Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are in poverty. On top of this writing are four children running, part of a saltire and the logo - JRF, Scottish Election.

Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty.

Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians.

The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4

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Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

New Fund launched by @brisunipress.bsky.social to support Global South scholars and Early Career Researchers www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Our reaction to Mel Stride’s big day at the Tory conference

There are savings to be made in the civil service. But an arbitrary headcount target & ignoring new demands on the state won’t deliver them

The hard work of doing that falls to the govt

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/mel-...

YouTube video by Centre for Peoples Justice Hillsborough Law in Parliament - The journey begins

Do you trust that the new Hillsborough Law can stop public officials from lying to the public?

See our new video on the Hillsborough Law in Parliament and follow for real-time updates:
youtube.com/watch?v=MCoS...

#HillsboroughLaw #CentreForPeoplesJustice #CFPJ

It may be that the future isn't jobless, but it's worth asking which jobs persist, who performs them, where, under what conditions. And importantly which types of *labour* are maintained, intensified, devalued, etc. Often, AI/tech create more labour, but not necessarily in the form of paid jobs.

The two-child limit means that an additional 500,000 children are currently growing up in poverty. If current policies remained in place, we would expect one-in-three British children to be growing up in poverty by the end of the decade

immediate abolition would cost £3.5 billion per year and lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of the decade. How do less ambitious options measure up?

Other rumoured options would be less cost effective

and other options would risk creating new cliff edges.

Is there room for compromise on the two-child limit?

Entirely scrapping it would have the biggest impact on child poverty and be most cost-effective.

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November budget Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year

Very encouraging to read that the Government is preparing to lift the two-child limit as part of its child poverty strategy, but it is disheartening that options short of scrapping it entirely are still being considered. Thread on why this would be the wrong choice for an ambitious strategy:

To reduce child poverty, government must scrap the two-chid limit. And that means fully scrapping it – no benefit cap, no tapers, no new limit. All children deserve the best start in life, and messing around the edges of this policy won’t cut it. 2/2

Rumours swirling that Government may try to avoid fully scrapping 2 child limit by changing it to a 3 child limit, only lifting it for some groups or giving lower support to 3rd and subsequent children. Helpfully @resfoundation.bsky.social already crunched the numbers, finding that...1/4

Government’s £500 million Fair Pay Agreement for social care workers is welcome, but it’s only a downpayment on a long-term solution

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68377

The way we talk about child poverty doesn’t always help

@savechildrenuk.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68383

If the i paper is right, 'lifting' the 2-child limit might be for working families only, or a 3-child limit. Neither is good enough. Both exclude some of the poorest children. Both impose a penalty for blending families. And both call for questions about rape.

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak Workers could be charged a fee to take their bosses to court under plans being explored by Labour as it faces pressure from businesses lobbying to water down its landmark changes to employment rights. In a development described by unions as a “disaster”, sources in Westminster said ministers were looking at reviving a proposal made by the last Conservative government to impose fees on employment tribunal claims. Continue reading...

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

1950s Ireland, when capital was the key to matrimony.

A very busy few days covering the Labour Party Conference here in Liverpool. We have wanted to make the creation of a Hillsborough Law front and centre of our coverage as it means so much to this city.

Thanks to colleagues @danhaygarth1.bsky.social and @lottgibbons.bsky.social for the team effort

Such vital and important research! Excited to see what the @cfpjustice.bsky.social does - very timely after yesterdays speech too!

Centre for Peoples Justice Hillsborough Law Project: real-time research about the making of Hillsborough law. Advancing people-powered knowledge to improve law and improve lives. Alliance of 7 universities across 4 U.K. nations...

Follow our real-time research into making of #HillsboroughLaw and join the debate on how laws are made, used and applied to help victims achieve justice: youtube.com/@centreforpe.... #CentreForPeoplesJustice #CFPJ @cfpjustice.bsky.social

YouTube video by Centre for Peoples Justice Hillsborough Law in Parliament - The journey begins

As part of the work of our new #CentreForPeoplesJustice
@cfpjustice.bsky.social we've created this video about the making of #HillsboroughLaw (aka the Public Office (Accountability) Bill), intended to get public authorities to tell the truth: youtu.be/MCoSZzEOWLk?...

My ILR cost something like £1200 in 2013, what then felt like a huge amount for a PhD student. Citizenship then cost £700 a year later. This now looks positively cheap compared to the current costs of £3k plus for ILR and £1700 for citizenship.

Front page of Scottish Commission on Social Security Scrutiny report on draft Regulations: The Two Child Limit Payment (Scotland) Regulations 2026

Did you know that the Scottish Government has immediate plans to introduce a top-up benefit for families in Scotland affected by the UK's two child limit? Short 🧵

The Scottish Commission on Social Security scrutinised the draft regulations at pace this summer & I was invited to submit observations