Centre for Women's Justice

Holding the state to account and challenging discrimination in the justice system around male violence against women and girls. RTs are not endorsements.

[Killed Women @KilledWomennw]

BBC Documentaries has announced three brand new powerful documentaries from Stacey Dooley, each looking at timely issues facing the UK today.
https://t.co/yQtp2rvMo2

'"Fallen Women" sees Stacey look into a series of cases involving British women who died following falls from height, asking whether patterns of domestic abuse may have been overlooked in some of these deaths.

'The film begins with the story of Bianca Thomas, a young mother from Birmingham whose death after falling from an 11th-floor balcony was ruled accidental. Stacey meets Bianca’s family [including her sister, Killed Women co-founder Jhiselle Feanny] and friends who are unhappy with the verdict and who still have questions about the circumstances of her death.

Women are more likely than men to die in suspicious circumstances in falls from height. Through intimate interviews with bereaved families, experts, campaigners and law enforcement, the documentary explores the challenges police face investigating these cases, and the growing campaign for “Bee’s Law”, which would encourage such scenes to be treated more consistently as potential crime scenes.

Taking Stacey into a little understood and deeply troubling world, this powerful film examines grief, justice and the difficult questions surrounding women who die after falling from height in the context of abusive relationships.'

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Most of the women’s service providers who participated in the research for our new report "They don't understand abuse" stated that they routinely dealt with cases where women were criminalised when they were in fact the victims of abuse.

🔗 https://t.co/4hcB12cq84

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Would you like to join our team?

We currently have two vacancies, closing date is 7 June 2026:

🟣Solicitor/Barrister (Criminal Appeals Supervisor)

🟣Operations & Compliance Coordinator

🔗https://t.co/sYxrGXETOo

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

New research report published today!

"They don't understand abuse", presents insights from survivors of VAWG and women’s specialist services about police and prosecution practice when survivors are accused of offending, and recommends reforms.

🔗https://t.co/au2mhFPQv5

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Lisa Ellwood is serving a life sentence for murder, after a life marked by abuse, severe mental ill-health, and a trial in which the jury were denied the benefit of psychological opinion evidence.

Her appeal will be heard on 26 June

Learn more: https://t.co/qosfi4pVjy

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

'The government is to review the sentencing of three teenage boys who raped two girls in separate attacks, after criticism their sentences were too lenient.'

🔗https://t.co/VhlIJeU3QR

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

ICYMI: Our CEO Harriet Wistrich appeared on @GMB earlier this week to discuss how the Human Rights Act helped the victim-survivors in ITV’s Believe Me hold the Met Police to account.

Watch the full interview from 1h56: https://t.co/INgjMkgLhg

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

The legal battle behind ITV’s Believe Me is also told in Harriet Wistrich’s book, which follows the case from the survivors’ perspective and examines the court’s role in addressing institutional failures to protect women and girls.

Get the book here: https://t.co/WAtALPNiFc

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Want to know more about how the victim survivors of ITV’s Believe Me found justice - see below

#ECHRProtectswomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Tonight’s episode of ITV’s Believe Me introduces Harriet Wistrich, Solicitor and our CEO. The series tells the true story of how survivors of John Worboys, after being dismissed by the police, fought for justice.

https://t.co/hj310Fz0mm

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

The next two episodes of Believe Me follow how Sarah and Laila, advised by their lawyers Harriet Wistrich and Phillippa Kaufmann, were able to hold police accountable by using the Human Rights Act.

Watch here: https://t.co/tFSnuqbnIT

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Episode 3 of ITV's Believe Me airs tomorrow and the focus turns to what happens when survivors decide to challenge the institutions that have failed them.

Watch here: https://t.co/kUQw4f18WC

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

ITV’s Believe Me shows the harrowing reality of reporting rape and how police scepticism can allow serious harm to continue. These are the systemic failures we work to challenge by holding the state to account.

Support our work: https://t.co/dps3ndBYnh

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

ICYMI ITV’s Believe Me tells the true story of women raped by taxi driver John Worboys and the determination it took to be heard, to stop further harm, and to secure accountability when serious failures followed their reports

Catch up: https://t.co/70T5n4HYsK

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

⚖️Calling feminist criminal lawyers

We are recruiting a criminal lawyer with experience in criminal appeals and CCRC reviews for a brand‑new role.

🔗Find out more: https://t.co/VRaojgfhk6

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

The first 2 episodes of ITV’s Believe Me raised important questions about how rape reports are handled when investigations fail. This is where the Human Rights Act matters setting standards under the ECHR for how the state must respond to serious violence

#ECHRProtectsWomen

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

#EHCRProtectsWomen

[UnHerd @unherd]

Has the Met learned from John Worboys? by Julie Bindel (@bindelj)

Could the catastrophic failures of the Worboys case happen again?

Harriet Wistrich, who helped many of the cabbie’s victims, says she has ‘no confidence’ that they couldn’t. Current figures suggest as much. Of all the rapes reported to police — likely to be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the actual number — just under 3% result in a conviction.

Unless 97% of women are liars, armies of rapists are freed to ruin more lives. When will we believe?

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/9NSkVqQKcs

[UnHerd @unherd]

Has the Met learned from John Worboys? by Julie Bindel (@bindelj)

Could the catastrophic failures of the Worboys case happen again?

Harriet Wistrich, who helped many of the cabbie’s victims, says she has ‘no confidence’ that they couldn’t. Current figures suggest as much. Of all the rapes reported to police — likely to be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the actual number — just under 3% result in a conviction.

Unless 97% of women are liars, armies of rapists are freed to ruin more lives. When will we believe?

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/9NSkVqQKcs

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Episode 2 of Believe Me showed a pattern of police failure: evidence missed, credibility doubted, cases dropped. These weren’t isolated errors, but systemic ones. Addressing these kinds of failures is central to our work holding the state to account.

https://t.co/DgiDEEcpIq

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

When state institutions fail victim-survivors like Sarah and Layla, the Human Rights Act and ECHR are often the only means of forcing accountability - yet both are under threat. Women & girls can’t afford to lose these protections
#EHCRProtectsWomen

[Harriet Wistrich @HWistrich]

I was able to speak to a day time audience about the critical role of the Human Rights Act and ECHR in holding the police to account - The Shocking True Story of Britain’s Black Cab Rapist | This Morning https://t.co/errmnRHOgx via @YouTube