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‘The media can give an injection of time and resource. It can make the world of difference’

INTERVIEW: A new series of BBC 2’s true crime documentary Conviction begins tonight following the work of Inside Justice in their re-examination of the case of Glyn Razzell. The legal charity’s ...
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‘No accountability’: 50 years after the Birmingham Six

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’ ...
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Lucy Letby: another miscarriage of justice driven by courts’ failure to grasp statistics?

Leading experts have spoken to the Justice Gap about concerns over the safety of the conviction of Lucy Letby. Media restrictions pending a second trial of the former neonatal nurse prevented ...
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PROOF #7: Ghosts in the System

Our print magazine is Proof. Contributors include Michael Mansfield QC, Bob Woffinden, David Rose, Eric Allison and Ian Cobain. Buy Proof Magazine The latest issue 'The Other Ones' includes the ...
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In the dock: why the setup of the British courtroom needs to change

Late last year I was in the dock for a three-week multi-handed rape trial in the Crown Court. I wasn’t the defendant. I was working as a paralegal and my firm was representing one of the men charged.
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Cases the changed us: Maxwell Confait

Maxwell Confait, a male prostitute known as Michelle, was throttled and his body discovered in a burnt-out flat in Catford, South London in 1972. Three innocent boys were jailed for his murder after ...
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‘Why are we still inside?’ Birmingham Four 10 years on

August 2026 will mark mine and my co-defendants ten-year fight and continuing struggle for justice. A decade has passed now, and I am still left with unanswered questions from when I was first ...
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In the dark: Secret evidence and the UK courts

At the end of last year the human rights group Reprieve together with the Tory MP David Davis and Labour MP were given permission to apply for judicial review of Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision ...
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Scepticism over ‘limited’ CPS inspection of CCRC

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is ‘not a failing organisation’, according to the findings of an investigation by the HM Crown Prosecution Service inspectorate which called for ‘urgent’ ...
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‘So much was missed’: What the Oliver Campbell case reveals about the Court of Appeal

Oliver Campbell’s legal team have criticised an ‘increasingly conservative’ Court of Appeal after the court contemplated a retrial more than a third of a century after his wrongful conviction. The ...
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PROOF launch: ‘Justice systems make mistakes – but there’s a failure of journalism to tell these stories’

The ‘spirit of Stalin’ was stalking the Ministry of Justice, a leading investigative journalist told MPs and campaigners over concerns about bans blocking prisoners maintaining innocence from talking ...
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Thirlwall report: ‘myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’

The Thirlwall inquiry which published yesterday has been variously criticised as being ‘myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’ for pushing on with a report ignoring ‘swirling’ concerns over the safety ...