All Outputs (26)

Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment (2024)
Book Chapter

This Chapter examines implications for legal education and training of lawyers when working within an environment where clients are under pressure to plead guilty. After first considering the background to plea bargaining, and the increasing pressure... Read More about Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment.

A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we explore a child’s journey through police custody and while the intention was to explore the impact of Covid-19 on children’s experiences, we found little differences in practice at the time the fieldwork was conducted. However, thi... Read More about A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects (2023)
Report

The Nuffield Foundation funded this three year project which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on over 50,000 electronic custody records drawn from e... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023 (2023)
Report

This is the Executive Summary of the final report arising out of a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023.

Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article

While studies have explored adult suspects’ understanding of their legal rights, seldom are the experiences of children and young people taken into account. In this article, we discuss findings arising out of research interviews conducted with 61 chi... Read More about Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales.

Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice (2020)
Journal Article

This study involved using an App to explore with detainees their understanding of the right to a lawyer and to identify what factors influence the take-up of legal advice. Also examined in this paper, from the users’ perspective, are potential barrie... Read More about Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice.

Digital legal rights for suspects: users' perspectives and PACE safeguards (2018)
Book

Research has consistently shown that many people do not understand their legal rights when arrested by the police. In seeking to help address this problem, a prototype App was developed to provide information to suspects when detained by the police.... Read More about Digital legal rights for suspects: users' perspectives and PACE safeguards.

Effective police station legal advice - Country Report 5: Northern Ireland (2018)
Book

This Country Report for Northern Ireland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structur... Read More about Effective police station legal advice - Country Report 5: Northern Ireland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 3: Ireland (2018)
Book

This Country Report for Ireland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured interv... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 3: Ireland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 6: Scotland (2018)
Book

This Country Report for Scotland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured inter... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 6: Scotland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 4: The Netherlands (2018)
Book

This Country Report for the Netherlands has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structure... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 4: The Netherlands.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 1: Belgium (2018)
Book

This Country Report for Belgium has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured interv... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 1: Belgium.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales (2018)
Book

This Country Report for England and Wales has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structu... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales.

Clinical legal education and experiential learning: looking to the future (2016)
Report

England and Wales: Empirical Findings (2016)
Book Chapter

Ensuring 'appropriate' protections for young suspects (2015)
Book Chapter

The book is the result of the first part of the European Commission funded research project 'Protecting young suspects in interrogations: a study on safeguards and best practice'. The legal study underlying this volume consisted of comparative resear... Read More about Ensuring 'appropriate' protections for young suspects.

PACE, performance targets and legal protections (2014)
Journal Article

Managerial influences in the criminal justice system have become increasingly dominant over recent years. There has also been a drift towards summary justice, with the police formally dealing with a significant proportion of cases out-of-court. In th... Read More about PACE, performance targets and legal protections.

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study: Adopting a ‘Whole-Systems’ Approach to Police Station Legal Advice – Final Report (2013)
Report

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study was intended to improve access to legal advice by basing duty solicitors in a large city centre police station. Implications for legal advice, for changing relations between the police and the defence, and in improvin... Read More about The Bridewell Legal Advice Study: Adopting a ‘Whole-Systems’ Approach to Police Station Legal Advice – Final Report.

"No time for a solicitor": implications for delays on the take-up of legal advice (2013)
Journal Article

A study of police custody records highlighted variations between police stations both in the take-up of legal advice and also in the average length of time people were held in custody. To further explore unobserved factors which might impact on such... Read More about "No time for a solicitor": implications for delays on the take-up of legal advice.

Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST): an innovation in police station legal advice: interim report (2012)
Report

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST) was an innovative project which attempted to help improve access to legal advice by basing duty solicitors in a large city centre police station. It had been intended that the project would run over a three mo... Read More about Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST): an innovation in police station legal advice: interim report.