Peter Francis, a former undercover officer in the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), said he had ‘hostile and heated’ ...
The government’s proposals to curtail the right to a trial by jury have been found to diverge in key ways from the ...
Between 2014 – 2024, 109 people have died in women’s prisons according to Ministry of Justice data, a statistic that charity ...
The report calls for a fundamental shift in policing focus to prevent sexually motivated crimes against women. It states that ...
The Centre for Women’s Justice have joined Rape Crisis in calling for urgent action to tackle the ‘life-threatening’ delays to Crown Court trials faced by victims of sexual offences in England and ...
The Post Office paid one law firm more than the entire cost of the public inquiry into the Horizon miscarriage of justice for four year’s of representation. As reported in Computer Weekly, which broke ...
In 1991, 19-year-old Oliver Campbell was convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob. He spent 12 years in prison. In 2025, his conviction was quashed, following new psychological evidence that revealed ...
Last month the legal charity APPEAL launched a groundbreaking report – Joint Enterprise on Trial. Dr Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan observed 17 murder and attempted murder trials at the Old Bailey — ...
A former Lord Chancellor has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) of being responsible for delaying the quashing of the conviction of a man who has served 38 years in prison for murder ...
Christine Keeler‘s 1963 conviction for perjury was the ‘ultimate in slut-shaming’ and a posthumous exoneration would be an opportunity to acknowledge historic discrimination against women in the ...
MPs spoke out against the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’ miscarriage of justice compensation scheme which rejected more than nine out of 10 applications. In a Westminster Hall debate earlier this week, Plaid ...
Lawyers who represented the men and women wrongly convicted of the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings this week warned about a return to ‘the bad old days’, called for ‘a complete reconstruction’ ...