Peter Francis, a former undercover officer in the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), said he had ‘hostile and heated’ ...

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Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Between 2014 – 2024, 109 people have died in women’s prisons according to Ministry of Justice data, a statistic that charity ...

Plans by the Ministry of Justice to restrict defendants’ ability to choose to be tried by jury have drawn criticism from leading lawyers who warn that the proposals amount to an ‘irremediable error‘.

Conditions at Feltham prison remain ‘insufficiently improved’ after an inspection by the prisons watchdog found high levels of violence against staff and one of the highest levels of drug use in any ...

The Ministry of Justice is preparing legislation that would significantly limit the right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in England and Wales. This follows recommendations made by Sir Brian ...

Peter Sullivan has recounted how he was ‘bullied’ and beaten into confessing to a murder he did not commit before wrongfully spending 38 years in prison. His conviction was overturned this year.

A Crown Court judge has blamed government funding failures for delays that mean he cannot lawfully keep a man accused of attempted murder in custody while he awaits trial, despite accepting the ...

The injustice suffered by the men of the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead is not just a story rooted in Merseyside – it speaks to working-class communities across our country. It is a story about ...

The miscarriages of justice watchdog has found ‘gang narratives’ used in a joint enterprise murder conviction may have led to wrongful convictions. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the ...