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 ...

‘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 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 ...

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 senior judge has ordered high street banks including Barclays, Nat West and Lloyds to release information on secret accounts held by a murdered university lecturer as the man’s son battles to clear ...

The number of cases stuck for more than two years under review at the Criminal Cases Review Commission has topped a hundred for the first time, more than doubling in the last five years. In the CCRC’s ...

Missing forensic evidence looks to jeopardise the trial of convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot for a 1991 murder case in which he is the prime suspect. Clothing belonging to Sophie Narme, who was raped ...

The final convictions of members of the so-called ‘Stockwell Six’ have been overturned at the court of appeal almost half a century after they were fitted up by corrupt British Transport Police ...

Julie Major takes no prisoners. Ironically, that’s precisely the quality you need when you’re fighting to overturn a miscarriage of justice. Jenny Evans writes. She first met Mark ‘Ozzy’ Osborne (she ...