About Us
Open Justice UK is an organisation dedicated to transparency, accountability, and reform of the justice system. It was founded after a crowdfunding campaign to acquire court transcripts from grooming gang trials, following the discovery that victims were being quoted thousands of pounds to access records of their own cases. It was the first organisation to privately request and publish court transcripts en masse, and published the first ever full court transcript in the UK. Since then, it has requested and published dozens of sentencing remarks from grooming gang trials, challenged judicial decisions to withhold information from the public, and undertaken original research into cases and systemic failures that have never before been subject to proper public scrutiny.Our Team
Adam Wren
Adam Wren is Co-Founder and Director of Open Justice UK. He grew up in North Manchester and studied at King's College London before working for the National Crime Agency and later as a senior researcher for an American defence contractor, focusing on defence technology and supply chains. He launched Open Justice UK after crowdfunding to acquire court transcripts from grooming gang trials, and has since led the organisation's research, legal engagement, and media work.📧 adam@openjustice.org.ukDirector & Founder
Melisa Tourt
Head of External Affairs & Policy, Founder
Melisa Tourt is Co-Founder and Head of External Affairs & Policy at Open Justice UK. She previously worked in public affairs, focusing on civil liberties and freedom of expression campaigns for NGOs, and prior to that served as a researcher for a Member of Parliament. She is also Communications Manager at the Centre for Policy Studies.📧 melisa@openjustice.org.uk
Fiona Goddard is a survivor of organised grooming gang abuse and one of the few victims to have waived her anonymity. A prominent campaigner, she advises Open Justice UK on grooming gang cases from both a survivor and campaigner perspective, and her court transcript was the first ever to be fully released publicly. She fronted a three-part podcast series with Open Justice UK telling her story in full, including the collapse of her first trial and the institutional failures that allowed such abuse to continue for decades.
For media inquiries for Fiona please contact info@openjusticeuk.org
Grooming Gangs Advisory Lead