Letters and Submissions

An open letter to the Lady Chief Justice in response to her judgement concerning the “administration of justice” in the Fordingbridge rape case where three boys convicted of 17 sexual offences against two girls were originally given non-custodial sentences.

Following a recent landmark judgment, Right to Equality has written for a second time to the President of the Family Division, the Lord Chancellor and the Minister for Family Justice to request a review of all cases of child removal where an unregulated expert was…

A letter to the Lord Chancellor, President of the Family Division, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office and Bar Standards Board regarding a barrister-judge found to have caused significant harm children.

We requested an urgent review of all cases involving a transfer of residence where an unregulated expert psychologist was instructed, whose opinion was based on ‘parental alienation’ or similar pseudoscientific concepts.

Right to Equality wrote to the Children’s Commissioner for England & Wales about the Family Courts and Safeguarding Failures in the Case of Sara Sharif

The letter requests that the Home Secretary commission a public inquiry into how Mohamed Al Fayed was able to sexually assault, harass and rape women with impunity for nearly four decades. It urges the Government inquiry to understand how allegations were handled by institutions, the…

This letter expresses our concern over the decision by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), under former DPP Claire Loftus, not to prosecute Conor McGregor and James Lawrence for alleged assault and rape against Nikita Hand. The recent civil court finding that…

Read our Letter to Lord Bellamy on the Presumption of Contact

Read our letter to Ministers Davies-Jones and Lord Ponsonby on the Presumption of Contact.

Read Right to Equality’s Briefing on Amendments to the Victim’s Bill. We were pleased to contribute to this work and wholeheartedly call on our government to implement these changes to benefit survivors.

Custody cases, violence against women and violence against children

Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Globally, 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lives, the majority of which takes place in the family home….