In his article of 9th February 2024 on the Justice Gap, “If Justice were a delusion, it would not be worth fighting for,” Here Francis Fitzgibbon KC initially suggests that I now think that the ...

Anne Flynn Scott Jenkins and Euan McIlvride 15 Jun Miscarriages of Justice ...

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 ...

Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

There have been multiple calls for a halt in the inquiry into the alleged murders of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital including from the forming nursing director at the trust where Lucy ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Hannah Quirk and Jon Robins 12 Jan Miscarriages of Justice ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has been given a month to decide whether it will challenge the appeal of a man who has been in prison since 1987 against his murder conviction. If successful, Peter ...

The justice system was facing ‘total gridlock’ next year as Labour inherited ‘completely unrealistic’ plans to tackle prison capacity. This was the bleak assessment offered by the House of Commons’ ...

A joint response to the government’s inquiry into tackling drugs in prisons has underlined the harms in current drugs policy, including the use of mandatory testing. It also highlights that despite ...

The Government has announced plans for a major reform of private prosecutions following concerns over ‘catastrophic failures’ in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the Single Justice Procedure (SJP).

The current inquiries into historical child abuse in England and Wales and in Scotland entail that, once again, the actions of residential care workers come under heightened scrutiny. As a former ...