Better evidence.
Better policy.
Better justice.
The Centre for Justice Policy researches why Britain's justice system fails, and what would fix it.
Our starting point is evidence most people can't get to. Court transcripts cost hundreds of pounds a hearing. Victims struggle to obtain their own records. We were the first organisation to privately obtain and publish court transcripts en masse, and the first to publish a full court transcript in UK legal history. That work continues.
From there we look at causes. We are mapping the patterns across the grooming gang scandal, examining what Britain can learn from justice systems that work better than ours, and tracing the roots of our biggest crime and justice failures: demographic change, frontline services stretched past the point of function, institutions that cannot or will not act.
Britain deserves a justice system that works. Getting one starts with knowing why this one doesn't.
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The complete Henry Nowak trial transcript
The Centre for Justice Policy has released, in full, the trial transcript of R v Vickrum Digwa and Kiran Kaur, the case that led to Digwa's conviction for the murder of Henry Nowak.
This is only the second time a complete UK trial transcript has ever been made public. The first was the Bradford case involving Fiona Goddard. Court transcripts in England and Wales are notoriously difficult and expensive to obtain, and full releases like this one remain vanishingly rare, which is exactly why we keep doing them.
Publishing the transcript in full means the public can read, in the defendant's own words, exactly what was said in court, rather than relying on second-hand reporting. It sits alongside our earlier release as part of the Centre for Justice Policy's Open Justice Project, which exists to make court proceedings genuinely accessible rather than locked behind cost and bureaucracy.
You can read the transcript here and find out more about what it revealed in The Daily Mail.
Do you work in care, social services or safeguarding?
We're running an interview series with people working on the frontline of care and social services, and we'd really like to hear from you.
You don't need to prepare anything or have a case to make. We're simply interested in what the work is actually like, what gets in the way, and what you think would help.
Interviews are confidential, and nothing that identifies you, your employer or the people you work with will be published. Interviews can be arranged in person or online. Participants receive a £50 Boots voucher as a thank you.
Current or former staff are both very welcome. Express your interest here.
Watch our podcast and hear Fiona Goddard’s grooming gang story
In our three-part series, survivor and campaigner Fiona Goddard tells her story on camera for the first time, in conversation with journalist Julie Bindel. From first contact at 14 in Bradford to the police, social workers and councils who had the evidence and did nothing.
Her account shows in personal detail what the failures in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and Oxford looked like from the inside: police, social services and councils that had the evidence and chose their own reputations over a child's safety.
Read the transcripts the system keeps hidden
Through our Open Justice UK project, we publish court records that would otherwise stay behind paywalls and administrative barriers.
That includes previously unreleased sentencing remarks from grooming gang trials, and the first full trial transcript ever published in the UK, from the Bradford case in which Fiona Goddard gave evidence.