Leading statisticians have come out in support of a former nurse serving 30 years for murder in a final attempt to clear his name. The miscarriage of justice watchdog is expected to decide whether or ...

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 ...

Leading experts have spoken to the Justice Gap about concerns over the safety of the conviction of Lucy Letby. Media restrictions pending a second trial of the former neonatal nurse prevented ...

Seventeen years into a life sentence, former nurse Colin Norris will have his conviction re-examined by the Court of Appeal in a hearing beginning today – four years after his case being referred by ...

Cognitive bias in the justice system is ‘widespread’ and ‘hidden’, according to a new research paper which argues that it is more difficult to deal with than the ‘easy to detect’ intentional bias of a ...

A Freedom of Information response from the Ministry of Justice shows just how illusory civil legal aid provision in England and Wales has become. The response shows how many matter starts (or new ...

A gripping new podcast, The Overturn, brings listeners into the real-life battles of people fighting on behalf of loved ones they believe have been victims of grave miscarriages of justice. The series ...

Maxwell Confait, a male prostitute known as Michelle, was throttled and his body discovered in a burnt-out flat in Catford, South London in 1972. Three innocent boys were jailed for his murder after ...

In 2006, following six tragic self-inflicted deaths at Styal prison within one year, the government commissioned the Corston Report. Baroness Corston and her team explored the underlying reasons why ...

On the August 9, 1970, 150 black protesters marched against the Metropolitan Police, challenging the campaign of intimidation that had been waged against their community. This protest set in motion ...

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.

Prisoners maintaining their innocence face ‘insurmountable obstacles’ trying to clear their names and had ‘lost faith’ in the justice system, according to a new study published today. The report makes ...