A sense of drift was not been helped by the lack of a chair at the Birmingham-based group since Helen Pitcher stood down in ...

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 ...

Former Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC gave the Legal Action Group’s 2013 lecture last night. During his term of office as DPP, Keir Starmer had to respond to some of the most ...

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 ...

‘Partly excellent, partly abysmal’: 20 years of the CCRC Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home ...

The CCRC needs to change its culture & stop being so defensive The Criminal Cases Review Commission recently announced a new programme of public engagement. (CCRC promises “greater transparency and ...

Almost 800 years of additional time imposed on inmates for rule breaking last year has exacerbated overcrowding, resentment and safety issues in prisons, a leading charity has warned. Report by Piers ...

There was a time when the sight of an envelope addressed to me in green ink, as though written studiously along a ruler’s edge, with each letter truncated in line, signified one thing: a plea from ...

The Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was introduced a decade ago to enable ‘minor’ offences to be dealt with in closed ...

With today’s ruling, pressure is mounting for compensation, institutional reform, and potentially a public inquiry. For Hayes ...

Surrey Police arrested some 46 people including four young people who were subsequently charged with the Guildford and Woolwich offences. They became known as the Guildford Four. Charged with murder ...

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’ ...