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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Malkinson has called a decision by the Ministry of Justice to lift the maximum amount of compensation payable under the miscarriage of justice system in England and Wales to £1.3m ‘below ...