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51st EG Conference – Call for Contributions

DL extended to Sunday, 26 March 2023 THE VIOLENCE OF LAW In most legal and political discourses, law is usually associated with peace and the search for peaceful solutions to social conflicts. Nevertheless, while law and the rule of law are touted as the antonym of violence, law itself is…

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Primodos: Financial redress is long overdue

Following the publication of the First Do No Harm  report (also known as the Cumberlege Review), Baroness  Julia Cumberlege CBE, a life peer who chaired the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, stated “The first duty of any health system is to do no harm to those in its care; but I…

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Blue Plaque for David Oluwale

by Remember Oluwale in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: We are raising money to fund a blue plaque on Leeds Bridge to commemorate the life and death of David Oluwale. David Oluwale was a British-Nigerian citizen who arrived in Hull in East Yorkshire as a stowaway in a cargo ship from Lagos….

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URGENT MESSAGE: EG MEETING CANCELLED

This is and urgent message to inform that tomorrow’s EG meeting (Wed-8) has to be postponed since we couldn’t send the call to all of our email lists due to a wonderful blocking of our email account provided by Gmail for alleged “security” reasons. We are trying to fix it…

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Primodos, Mesh and Sodium Valproate: Recommendations and the UK Government’s response

Following patient-led campaigns, on the 22nd February 2018, Jeremy Hunt, the then, Secretary of State for Health, commissioned a review into the potentially harmful side effects of three NHS treatments: Primodos; Mesh and Sodium Valproate. As a result, on the 8th July 2020, the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review published the First Do No Harm report. According to Baroness Cumberlege, a life…

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Solidarity to the Mytilene Nine

WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST ALARM AND ANGER OVER THE HARASSMENT OF OUR COLLEAGUE AND COMRADE PROFESSOR STRATOS GEORGOULAS AND EIGHT OTHER CITIZENS BY THE GREEK POLICE Georgoulas and the other eight other citizens participated with many others in a public event on November 17th 2020 commemorating the Athens…

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Hassan Diab Extradition case

RE: The Case of Hassan Diab and Issues in Canadian Extradition Law 2011 letter from the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control expressingconcerns about the Hassan Diab case and Canadian extradition law. “The European Group is not just an academic network”

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The Statement Of Total Support For Iñaki Rivera

The European Group for the Study of Deviation and Social Control presents this statement of total support for Iñaki Rivera Mr. Rivera, Director of the Observatory of the Criminal System and Human Rights at the University of Barcelona, has been criminally denounced by the section of prison workers of the…

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