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Joint enterprise

July 2024

  • Stock image of police van and police tape

    Labour urged to reform joint enterprise law to stop ‘systemic injustice’

    Exclusive: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies says rules result in overcriminalisation and discriminatory outcomes

26 June 2024

  • Manchester crown court building

    How were three boys who played no active role in a Manchester killing convicted of manslaughter?

    Trial over stabbing of Kennie Carter was latest of several high-profile joint enterprise prosecutions involving groups of Black youths in the city
  • Kennie Carter

    Four teenagers convicted over fatal stabbing of Kennie Carter in Manchester

    Boy, 16, guilty of murder and three others convicted of manslaughter over 2022 death of 16-year-old
  • Friends and family of people convicted of murder under joint enterprise law protest in Parliament Square

    Murder and manslaughter charges under joint enterprise rise despite concern

    Nearly 1,000 people charged in five years in England and Wales under doctrine that supreme court said had taken ‘wrong turn’

February 2024

  • HMP Dovegate

    ‘Very dangerous and confusing’: one inmate’s view on joint enterprise law

  • Friends and family of people convicted under joint enterprise law protest in Westminster, London in 2021.

    Joint enterprise law: MP’s bill seeks to stop innocent bystanders being jailed

September 2023

  • Police tape at a crime scene.

    Most people prosecuted under joint enterprise from minority ethnic background

    Data shows black people are 16 times more likely than white people to be prosecuted under the doctrine, according to CPS figures

July 2023

  • Russ Millions, left, and Tion Wayne with their official No 1 single award, after song Body became the first drill song to top the charts.

    The Guardian view on rap and drill music: a song should not land the young in jail

    Editorial: The use of lyrics, music videos and audio recordings in court to prosecute people raises issues of prejudice and free expression

February 2023

  • Members of the campaign group Jengba (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) demonstrate against joint-enterprise convictions outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in 2021.

    Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias

    CPS agrees, following legal challenge, to record age and race data after studies show young men and black boys suffer most

November 2022

  • Zoe Williams

    The UK should be ashamed of ‘joint enterprise’ convictions. America has put us on notice

    Zoe Williams
    Six years ago the UK supreme court ruled these cases were flawed and corrected the law’s “wrong turn”. But, as the New York Times has noted, they keep on coming

August 2022

  • Jordan Cunliffe

    My blind son was jailed for being at the scene of a murder. Halt this tide of joint enterprise convictions

    Janet Cunliffe
    How many more boys’ lives will be destroyed because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time, asks Janet Cunliffe, co-founder of the Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association

April 2022

  • Members of the campaign group Jengba – Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association – at a demonstration in Parliament Square in July 2021.

    Joint enterprise ruling has not led to fewer homicide charges, report finds

    Exclusive: Research suggests prosecutions and convictions of secondary suspects have risen since 2016 judgment

October 2020

  • Osime Brown

    Osime Brown's mother vows to fight against deportation to Jamaica

    Case of 21-year-old autistic man has received support from MPs and human rights activists

September 2020

  • Micha Frazer-Carroll

    The deportation of an autistic black man is an indictment of the UK’s racist justice system

    Micha Frazer-Carroll
    Osime Brown was convicted when he was a teenager. Now, at 21, he’s due to be flown to Jamaica, says Micha Frazer-Carroll, columnist at the Independent

November 2018

  • Laura Mitchell.

    Laura Mitchell loses appeal against Andrew Ayres murder conviction

    Court of appeal’s judgment criticised by campaigners seeking changes to ‘joint enterprise’ rules

January 2018

  • Members of Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association

    Senior Tories urge government to review joint enterprise laws

    Motion calls for review two years after supreme court ruled laws have been misinterpreted

October 2016

  • Members of the Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association group protest outside court.

    Appeal court upholds 'joint enterprise' guilty verdicts

    Leading judges announce decision in first appeals brought since landmark ruling raised possibility of unsafe convictions

September 2016

  • Oliver Heald

    Murder law will not be reformed, justice minister tells MPs

    Oliver Heald says calls for three-tier system of offences similar to US would create a ‘murder-lite’ category for most killings
  • Ameen Jogee.

    Ameen Jogee jailed for manslaughter in joint enterprise test case

    His conviction and sentence to 12 years in jail for killing ex-police officer Paul Fyfe replace previous term of 20 years for murder
  • Young inmate looking depressed in prison cell, Portland Young Offenders Institution, Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.<br>ABC98D Young inmate looking depressed in prison cell, Portland Young Offenders Institution, Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    The joint enterprise law has changed. Yet still we must fight to free our sons

    Sally Halsall
    The evidential bar remains low – and there are already about 4,500 mainly black and minority ethnic people serving long sentences for crimes they didn’t commit
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