Individual Campaigns

• • Most campaigns are initiated by a single person
  • Usually the individual starting the campaigns has a personal experience of injustice and wants to stop it happening to others by changing the views of the public and causing government to change its policies.
• Michael Wood (Clare’s Law):

  • Clare’s Law gives women the chance to ask the police about the criminal background of their partner.
  • Clare was murdered by her ex-partner in 2008 despite going to the police about his harassment of her many times.
  • When Michael Wood, her father, discovered the murderer had previous convictions, he was outraged and launched a campaign which led to the Domestic Violence DIsclosure Scheme in 2014
• Ann Ming:

  • Campaigned by lobbying politicians and engaging with the media to share the story of her daughter’s murderer escaping re-trial under the problematic double-jeopardy law when he admitted after being previously acquitted of murdering Julie Hogg.
  • In 2003 the Criminal Justice Act was passed allowing for re-trial in light of new evidence.