In a bonus round-up episode, Marnie Duke talks to the human rights lawyer and criminal appeal specialist Glyn Maddocks KC and ...

New commissioners at the miscarriage of justice watchdog include a former director of the human rights group Liberty but lack experience in criminal appeals. Martha Spurrier, also a barrister at ...

The latest issue 'The Other Ones' includes the Birmingham Four, Andrew Malkinson's fight for justice, the scandal of Joint ...

A seventh case of a man serving a controversial indeterminate prison sentence has been sent to the Court of Appeal by the ...

A leading human rights barrister is facing possible contempt proceedings over a closing speech to jurors in a Palestine ...

The loss of dozens of files from a controversial 1994 murder investigation in the Orkneys has been described by the Scotland’s freedom of information watchdog as ‘shocking’. In 2008, Michael Ross, a ...

The ban on Jeremy Bamber talking to the media has been criticised as ‘patently ridiculous and disingenuous’ and will be challenged by his legal team. As reported by Simon Hattenstone in the Guardian, ...

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 ...

Working daily on possible miscarriages of justice cases, we naturally assume that everyone knows what this work involves, and what the role of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is. That is a ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity. The bombs were placed in the pubs with ...

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’ ...