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June 2024 Newsletter

Our newest newsletter has arrived, filled with fascinating material and contributions! Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll find inside: a thought-provoking post on the Grenfell Tower victims’ struggle for justice: an in depth exploration of the ongoing fight for justice; a deep dive into Julian Assange case: a reflection…

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May2024 Newsletter

Our monthly newsletter is out, and it’s packed with interesting content thanks to the Fear and Looting working group. Inside, you’ll find exciting calls for papers, an insightful article on the harms of hormone pregnancy tests, a fun ‘news from around the world’ section, and much more. There are also…

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March 2024 Newsletter

The newsletter is out this month: in addition to the core EG newsletter with tributes to recently passed members, as well as calls for papers and other event information, there is also a fresh section by the Working Group on Prison, Punishment and Detention.

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51st EG Conference – The Violence of Law

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 a key source of violence. In many…

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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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