Jason Moore was jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years after being found guilty of murdering Robert Darby in 2005. Relatives of Darby, who was stabbed to death in a pub car park in East ...
But make sure you are not a run- of-the-mill nurse. You need to stand out from the crowd in one way or another – for instance, by being an unashamedly out gay man (Colin Norris – see the Justice Gap ...
Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal heard argument in R (Palestine Action) v Secretary of State for the Home Department. The dispute wasn’t about whether proscribing ‘Palestine Action’ was justified, ...
The criminal court backlog has a number attached to it. Depending on which report you read, it is somewhere north of sixty thousand cases. Lawyers know it. Campaigners cite it. Politicians debate it.
Six indeterminate sentences known as IPPs have been overturned by the Court of Appeal and the miscarriage of justice watchdog is reviewing a further 150 cases. Of the six, three – Benjamin Hibbert, ...
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 ...
Andrew Malkinson has called for those responsible for his wrongful conviction to be ‘held to account’ following the conviction of Paul Quinn at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. Quinn was unanimously ...
The loss of dozens of files from a controversial 1994 murder investigation in the Orkneys has been described by the Scotland’s freedom of information watchdog as ‘shocking’. In 2008, Michael Ross, a ...
Working daily on possible miscarriages of justice cases, we naturally assume that everyone knows what this work involves, and what the role of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is. That is a ...
Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...
The latest issue 'The Other Ones' includes the Birmingham Four, Andrew Malkinson's fight for justice, the scandal of Joint ...
In a bonus round-up episode, Marnie Duke talks to the human rights lawyer and criminal appeal specialist Glyn Maddocks KC and ...