IN DEPTH: Why Joint Enterprise is Going out of Fashion in Gang Murder Cases

Published on January 24, 2024

Campaigners against the use of the law of joint enterprise in gang murder cases—which they claim is “racist”—are confident they will get legal changes pushed through in the next year. Jan Cunliffe, co-founder of the campaign group JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Guilty By Association), told The Epoch Times they were confident the law would be amended so people who were “in the wrong place at the wrong time” were not given life sentences for murder. Joint enterprise is a 300-year-old legal principle which states that if a group set out on a course of action—for example murder—then they are all equally guilty of that crime, even if only of them stabs or shoots the victim....

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