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Labour manifesto: We will ensure legal aid for inquests into deaths in state custody and the preparation of JR cases. We will consult on civil legal aid means-test and act on the criminal legal aid review. We will halt court closures and cuts to staff, and review courts reforms.
Labour manifesto: Legal aid cuts mean essential legal help is often denied. We will restore early legal aid advice, including for housing, social security, family & immigration cases. We will recruit hundreds of new community lawyers, and build an expanded network of law centres.
Labour manifesto: We are guided by our firm commitment to the Human Rights Act and ECHR that have been consistently attacked by the Conservatives. We will ratify both the Istanbul Convention on preventing domestic abuse and the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment at work.
Labour manifesto: We will end indefinite detention, & close Yarl’s Wood & Brook House. We will ensure justice for migrant domestic workers & restore domestic worker visas. We will end deportation of family members of people entitled to be here and end minimum income requirements.
Labour manifesto: We will bring greater transparency by
extending Freedom of Information to private providers of public services, setting new standards of disclosure. And end 6-month limit in which Information Commissioner can prosecute deliberate destruction of public records.
Labour will:
- Establish judge-led inquiry into UK’s alleged complicity in rendition/torture, & secret courts.
- Apologise for Jallianwala Bagh massacre, & review UK role in Amritsar massacre.
- Allow Chagossians to return to land from which they should never have been removed.
Labour will:
• Suspend sale of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen and to Israel for arms used to breach Palestinians' human rights

• Reform justice system for breach of human rights, like bombing of Syrian hospitals, blockade of Gaza, rape as weapon of war against Rohingya.
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