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The disproportionate impact of joint enterprise and youth justice responses

The legal doctrine of joint enterprise is a set of common law legal principles originating from Victorian times. A heavily criticised doctrine of collective punishment, joint enterprise is relevant in cases where two or more people are charged with offences, enabling a conviction when a criminal act has been committed by another person. The law […]

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Joint Enterprise: Lowering the Bar

Seventy years ago, a man with learning difficulties said a four-word phrase (‘Let Him Have It’) and was subsequently sentenced to death. While that conviction for murder was later quashed, Derek Bentley’s hanging could hardly be reversed. His fate remains a grim reminder that under the legal doctrine of joint enterprise, a set of legal […]