Courts, court users and the judicial process

ICPR has long-standing experience of conducting empirical courts-based research. Prior studies have examined sentence decision-making and public attitudes to sentencing; the quality of criminal advocacy; and what it is like to attend the criminal courts as a defendant, witness or victim. Current work includes research into what it means to 'participate' in criminal, family and tribunal proceedings; the values shaping deliberation in the Court of Protection; and the preparation of witness statements for the Employment Tribunal.

Completed projects include:

Enhancing problem-solving practice in the Youth Court

Publications

Cooper, Penny (2020) The Advocate's Gateway: Supporting Participation in Courts and Tribunals: Toolkit 19

Hunter, Gillian and Ely, C. and Robin-D'Cruz, C. and Whitehead, S. (2020) Time to get it right: enhancing problem-solving practice in the Youth Court. Centre for Justice Innovation, London, UK.

Cooper, P. (2019), 'Creating witness statements for employment tribunals', ela Briefing, Vol 26, No 8, 16.

Kong, Camillia (2019) Constructing female sexual and reproductive agency in mental capacity law, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 66, September–October 2019, 101488

Cooper, Penelope (2019) Vulnerable adults in the Court of Protection in Counsel Magazine, August 2019

Kong, Camillia and Coggon, J. and Dunn, M. and Cooper, Penelope (2019) Judging values and participation in mental capacity law. Laws 8 (1), p. 3. ISSN 2075-471X.