Becky Clarke and Gloria Morrison - Miscarriages of Justice: The Joint Enterprise conundrum

Miscarriages of Justice: The Joint Enterprise conundrumWith Guests Gloria Morrison: Co-founder of JENGbAand Becky Clarke: Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan UniversityIn 2015 the Supreme Court determined that the law of joint enterprise had been wrongly interpreted for 30 years, yet people convicted under that discredited law are still languishing in prison. It was used to convict marginalised and vulnerable defendants predominately from BAME and working-class communities resulting in numerous miscarriages of justice. With little or no actual evidence of involvement against them, many of these defendants were given mandatory life sentences for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.