Melanie McFadyean

Melanie McFadyean is a journalist and author who also <a href=http://www.city.ac.uk/journalism/people/faculty/mmacfadyean.html target=_blank>teaches</a> journalism at the City University, London.

Serious concerns emerge over joint enterprise laws

Joint enterprise laws allow groups to be collectively convicted of a crime, including people who didn't commit it. New evidence compiled by the Bureau for Investigative Journalism shows its application is often questionable.

By Melanie McFadyean, Maeve McClenaghan and Rachel Stevenson

/ 1 Apr 2014

Joint enterprise: no one should be punished for a crime they did not commit

Joint enterprise laws allow people to be convicted for crimes they didn't themselves commit, and are leading to too many miscarriages of justice.

By Melanie McFadyean

/ 1 Apr 2014

New Labour and neo-fascism

On Thursday 4 May 2006 the local elections across Britain delivered a political shock to the New Labour government and the political establishment as a whole: the far-right British National

By Melanie McFadyean

/ 4 May 2006