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 ...

In 1991, 19-year-old Oliver Campbell was convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob. He spent 12 years in prison. In 2025, his conviction was quashed, following new psychological evidence that revealed ...

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 ...

Getting up at 4.30 am and travelling to London to hear the words of Lord Leggatt was a day we will never forget, writes Professor Claire McGourlay and Fintan Walker. A landmark decision was handed ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Fundamentally unfair’ fast-track prosecutions are leading to miscarriages of justice according to the first major piece of research into secretive court proceedings introduced for a more efficient ...

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 ...

Appeal judges are due to hear the 12th appeal of a wrongful conviction related to the corrupt and racist British Transport Police officer Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell. Errol Campbell will have ...

Reducing jury trials would ‘inevitably’ increase the number of miscarriages of justice, according to critics of proposals by Sir Brian Leveson to clear the backlog in the courts. Pic: Andy Aitchison.