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JENGbA

London Against Injustice (LAI) are fronting a new campaign. For now the campaign will be known as Challenging Wrongful Conviction In Joint Enterprise Cases – However this is subject to change.

LAI are preparing a paper to present to the Home Affairs Select Committee highlighting the injustices that have occurred as a direct response to Joint Enterprise convictions. There will also be a future petition organised to try and overturn these wrongful convictions.

LAI have emailed all who attended the meeting at the House Of Commons and all who are on their Joint Enterprise mailing list, with information on how you can get involved.

If you haven’t received a email or are not on their mailing list please contact info@londonagainstinjustice.co.uk to request information on what you can do to help.

You will also be emailed a questionnaire if you are directly linked to an injustice involving Joint Enterprise. Your case could be highlighted in the paper that will be presented to the Home Affairs Select Committee.

This campaign needs a lot of publicity if we are to change the public perception of this law. Anyone who can help regarding publicity should contact the email address above.

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PETITION FOR A CHANGE IN THE LAW.

Please take a couple of seconds to sign this petition, we really need a change in the law to stop innocent people spending their life behind bars.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/justice_not_injustice/

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* NEW UPDATE *

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH LAW OF JOINT ENTERPRISE PLEASE LET NICK CLEGG KNOW, ADD YOUR COMMENTS ON THE YOUR FREEDOM WEBSITE WHICH IS LINKED BELOW. THANK YOU.

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/repealing-unnecessary-laws/abolish-amend-joint-enterprise-law/idea-view

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* NEW UPDATE *

The new campaign, which is now called JENGbA, (Joint Enterprise – Not Guilty By Association) will be launched on the 20th September in Liverpool. For further information or to have your loved ones case added to the campaign please contact enterpriseinfo@gmail.com

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*NEW UPDATE*    24/11/2010

Crime: Joint Enterprise
Lord Ouseley to ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have received about the fairness of joint enterprise prosecutions; and what responses they have made.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many individuals have been imprisoned over the past five years having been convicted as guilty under the law of joint enterprise in relation to crimes which they denied committing at the time of trial and subsequently.
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally): The law on joint enterprise forms part of the law on secondary liability, which treats as criminal the activities of those who aid, abet, counsel or procure others to commit crimes. Where a crime is committed by two or more people, each may play a different part but if they are in it together as part of a joint plan or agreement, they are each guilty.Although the Ministry of Justice’s court proceedings database holds data on the total number of convictions for offences in England and Wales, it does not hold information on whether those offences were committed as part of a joint enterprise; or whether any of the offenders convicted for their part in a joint enterprise denied wrongdoing at the time of the trial or subsequently.

We are aware that some concerns have been raised about joint enterprise law, particularly in response to the Your Freedom consultation and in correspondence. The majority of these appear to be based on a misunderstanding of the law and have expressed concern that innocent bystanders may be convicted unfairly.

A small number have been raised by the friends or families of gang members who consider that their involvement in the gang’s criminal activities was not significant enough to warrant conviction for the offences in question. Ultimately, it is for the jury to decide on the scope of the joint enterprise and the mind of the parties to it in each case, taking account of all the evidence heard at the trial.

JENGbA’s (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) RESPONSE:

The answer to Lord Ouseley’s question was really interesting. It shows that the government (with, it must be said, most lawyers) has no understanding at all of what is going on

You now need to point out that the Ministry is misinformed in three crucial respects:

1. There is not “a small number” of people wishing to raise concerns, but a very substantial number.

2. These people who are raising concerns are not members of any “gang”.

3. They are not suggesting that “their involvement in the gang’s criminal activities was not significant enough…”

They are saying that they are innocent, without qualification.

To all campaigners – Please write to your Member of Parliament and point out that you were not only not a member of a ‘gang’ but innocent of the crime you have been convicted of.

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Any future developments with the campaign or any further news regarding Joint Enterprise will be printed on this page, so please keep checking for future updates.

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