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REPRESENTING PREGNANT WOMEN AND MOTHERS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: A LEGAL TOOLKIT
Thursday, 5th September 2024 | 18:30 - 20:30 In person, followed by a drinks reception
This unique toolkit, written by three Doughty Street Chambers’ barristers (Maya Sikand KC, Pippa Woodrow and Hannah Smith) and Janey Starling, co-director of the feminist campaign organisation Level Up, is designed to equip lawyers with the core legal arguments, tools and resources to effectively represent pregnant women and mothers of infants at all stages of the criminal justice process including bail, sentencing and appeals against sentence. The toolkit also provides practitioners with the key prison law issues facing incarcerated mothers and pregnant women.
Chair:
Maya Sikand KC, who represented the mother of baby Aisha Cleary, whose high-profile death at HMP Bronzefield in 2019 resulted in the landmark categorisation of all pregnancies in prison as “high-risk”
Speakers:
Charlie, a woman with recent experience of imprisonment during pregnancy;
Janey Starling, co-director of Level Up, whose powerful campaign to end the imprisonment of pregnant women has helped secure a new mitigating factor for pregnancy;
Kirsty Brimelow KC (Vice Chair Elect of the Bar Council, former Chair of the Criminal Bar Association & joint head of the Doughty Street Crime team) who has headed consultation responses on sentencing guidelines and has expertise in securing bail for pregnant women in prison.
Pippa Woodrow, who has expertise in both prison law and criminal litigation and has been at the forefront of the recent and rapidly developing jurisprudence in sentencing appeals for pregnant women and mothers
The speaker sessions will be followed by a Q&A.
We really hope you can join us!
Registrations have now closed!
The toolkit is available on the Level Up website here.
