He has written for the national and specialist press for almost 20 years. He runs the JusticeGap (www.thejusticegap.com). Jon won the Bar Council’s legal reporter in 2015 (previously in 2005) and the Halsbury Legal Journalism award 2013. Jon is a visiting lecturer in the journalism department at Winchester University, a visiting senior fellow in access to justice at the University of Lincoln, a patron of Hackney Community Law Centre and on the advisory committee for the new Centre for Criminal Appeals. Jon’s books include The first miscarriage of justice (Waterside Press, 2014), The Justice Gap: Whatever happened to legal aid? (Legal Action Group, 2009 – with Steve Hynes) and People Power: how to run a campaign (Daily Telegraph and LawPack, 2008).