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 ...

During those two periods we will not be updating the site – or responding to emails. If you are looking for a summer read and want to support the Justice Gap, then try PROOF. The illustration is from ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Westminster inquiry into the controversial law around joint enterprise was launched in the House of Commons on Tuesday night at an event highlighting the impact on the families and friends of those ...

It is currently not known how many young black men are currently serving a life sentence for joint enterprise murder, nor is there a record of whether they were convicted as a principal offender, a ...

A woman is killed by a man on average every three days, according to the most comprehensive study of women killed by men. A new report by Femicide Census finds that 1,425 women and girls were killed ...