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1. Membership of a national, educationally-driven organisation, which
provides clinical education in an innovative area, that is cost-effective
and manageable and supported by a network comprising all constituencies in
the area of miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction of the
innocent.
2. Innocence Projects Starter Pack to help new members get their innocence
projects up and running, includes the Innocence Project Student Handbook,
application form for student members, assorted template letters such as
invitation to pro bono solicitor/barristers and client care letters and the
protocols for caseworking.
3. A low cost annual national training programme, subsidised where
necessary, regularly reviewed and consisting of high quality sessions and
materials, designed to avoid the need for each innocence project to
re-invent the training wheel. Bristol and Cardiff universities were jointly
'Highly Commended' by Lord Goldsmith in the Attorney General's Pro Bono
Awards 2007 for collaboration on devising and delivering the INUK national
training programme, and we hope that this award reflects our belief in the
concept and quality of this annual training event.
4. The provision of cases to member innocence projects from the INUK
central casebank, established by gathering letters from alleged innocent
victims of wrongful conviction and/or imprisonment over past years. The
database serves to avoid the administrative burden that individual projects
would otherwise have. It also prevents different innocence projects
duplicating work for the same clients, and provides a valuable and evolving
central research base.
5. Assistance with any practical queries member innocence projects may have
from the INUK co-ordinators, other Member Innocence Projects and from
INUK's wider community of supporters and contacts.
6. Link from the INUK website to your own innocence project website or
webpages on your university website.
7. A voice for the innocence project community in wider debates and forms
of communication about clinical education and social justice policy.
8. Membership of the Innocence Network, the international association of
innocence projects around the world.
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