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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

The use of pepper spray to incapacitate children is ‘wholly irresponsible’ according to the head of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) which inspect prisons in England and Wales. The IMB’s ...

A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

MPs have called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s chief exec to go as part of ‘root and branch reform’ required to fix the troubled watchdog body which presently has no chair. The House of ...

‘Who is actually running the organisation?’ asked Andy Slaughter MP, chair of the House of Commons‘ justice committee, at a specially convened session on the work of the Criminal Cases Review ...

MPs spoke out against the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’ miscarriage of justice compensation scheme which rejected more than nine out of 10 applications. In a Westminster Hall debate earlier this week, Plaid ...

Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful. Symon Hill has been paid £2,500 after being arrested in September ...

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’ ...