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Tom Smith's Outputs (2)

Submission to the independent review of the criminal courts – Written evidence on neurodivergence, vulnerability and the criminal courts (2025)
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Recent years have seen increased attention to both neurodiversity as a general concept and social concern, and specifically to the way in which the CJS engages with individuals who are neurodivergent. Interest (and, to some extent, action) in this ar... Read More about Submission to the independent review of the criminal courts – Written evidence on neurodivergence, vulnerability and the criminal courts.

‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
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It is well established that the news media plays a pivotal role ‘in facilitating open justice’ by reporting on the proceedings of the courts. Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shutting of physical court rooms in England and Wales i... Read More about ‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic.