Over Friday and Saturday, 6 and 7 February 2015, an impressive line-up of speakers will offer powerful accounts on contemporary policing.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and The Monitoring Group, in partnership with Imran Khan and Partners and Tottenham Rights, have organised a two-day conference at Conway Hall in London to seek common ground between families, community workers, journalists, academics, lawyers and affected communities, to understand and challenge the problem of police corruption, spying and racism.
The conference takes as its starting point that there is a profound crisis in policing across the UK that requires us to share information and experiences, develop ideas and create new partnerships that will spur a momentum for genuine state accountability.
Speakers on Friday will include:
- Rosa Curling, Leigh Day Solicitors
- Rebekah Delsol, Open Society
- Rob Evans, Guardian journalist
- Dr Jules Holroyd, University of Nottingham
- Professor Gus John, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Education
- John McDonnell MP, Hayes and Harlington
- Rebecca Roberts, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
- Dr Mike Shiner, London School of Economics
- Helen Steel, spied on environmental activist
- Mark Thomas, political satarist and reporter
- Dr David Whyte, University of Liverpool
- Dr Patrick Williams, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Harriet Wistrich, Birnberg Pierce and Partners solicitors
Speakers on Saturday will include:
- Janet Alder, sister of Christopher Alder
- Raju Bhatt, Bhatt Murphy Solicitors (TBC)
- Professor Ben Bowling, King’s College London
- Richard Garside, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
- Courtenay Griffiths QC
- Suresh Grover, The Monitoring Group
- Lee Jasper, formerly Mayor of London’s Adviser on Policing
- Imran Khan, Lawyer to the Stephen Lawrence family
- Dame Doreen Lawrence
- Lee Lawrence, son of Cherry Groce
- Paul O’Connor, Director of Pat Finucane Centre, Derry
- Sukdev Reel, mother of Ricky Reel
- David Rose, Investigative journalist
- Stafford Scott, Tottenham Rights
You can book for Friday, Saturday or both days.
The full programme and booking information are on the event’s page on the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies’ site.
