The move is hoped to reduce a backlog in pending trials Jury trials could be scrapped for most crimes under a new government initiative. Justice Secretary David Lammy is trying to reduce a backlog of pending trials by removing juries from most trials in the UK, as reported by The Times. The outlet claimed to […]

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‘It’s heartbreaking and deeply unfair’ A man who was wrongly jailed for three decades has died just months after being released. Back in May, Claude Francis Garrett was finally freed after he was exonerated of murder and released from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee, US. The 65-year-old was wrongfully convicted in 1993 of killing his […]

3 years ago

It’s set to be the label’s biggest event in London since its 10th birthday six years ago Ed Banger Records, the Parisian electronic label founded by former Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter (aka Busy P), have announced a huge London show – well, it’s more of a party really – taking place next year at […]

7 years ago

Happy National Album Day! Celebrating 70 years of the album format, today marks the very first National Album Day here in the UK. Putting singles, playlists, EPs and mixtapes to the back of our minds for 24 hours, we thought we’d revisit our Record That Changed My Life series. If you’re unfamiliar with the series, it’s something […]

8 years ago

Record That Changed My Life In the seventh episode of JOE’s Record That Changed My Life series, Tokio Myers waxes lyrical about Cross by Justice and breaks down why it’s so much more than just another dance album to him. The self-titled album by Justice, which is also known as Cross, was released in 2007 to […]

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