About 13% of prisoners in England and Wales; and about 25% in Scotland are not serving sentences after being convicted; they are awaiting trial, having been refused bail.

The detention of those who must be presumed innocent by the court, seems far more problematic than the imprisonment of those who have been convicted of crimes.

Join Professor Antony Duff, FBA, Professor Sandra Marshall and Sir Rupert Jackson as they discuss the justifiability of pre-trial detention.

The grounds for pre-trial detention are, supposedly, purely preventive, to guard against the perceived risk that the defendant will fail to appear for trial, or interfere with the criminal process, or commit offences whilst on bail. Such preventive detention of those who have not been convicted is normally thought to be unjustifiable, but why, then, can it become justifiable once a person has been charged with an offence?

Professors Antony Duff and Sandra Marshall, authors of Public and Private Wrongs are philosophers at the University of Stirling and will be joined by Sir Rupert Jackson, former justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, who currently serves as a Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court

A talk and drinks reception event will follow the talk. The second in our special interest series on Philosophy and the Law.

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