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We are committed to the fight to challenge wrongful convictions and this blog is about our concerns over miscarriages of justice.

We also believe that historical abuse cases are an area ripe for such miscarriages and write extensively on this issue as well as defend many such cases. We have for some years been connected to concerns over the failure to compensate the wrongfully convicted.

What all these things have in common is that they demonstrate an imbalance in how we treat those wrongfully accused or convicted, something which requires urgent attention.

Latest Posts

Hamilton v Post Office[2021] EWCA Crim 21 – No right to argue abuse of process on referral but fairness dictated it should be allowed

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This was a Referral in relation to post office workers who had been convicted of dishonesty broadly under circumstances where post office accounting software and procedures might have falsely reported omissions that…

R v SL 2021] EWCA Crim 178 – Reminding of the Jury of ABE errors do not necessarily render a conviction unsafe

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In a Sexual Offence Case a Jury wanted a reminder of aspects of the ABE evidence. This was properly done as required in Open Court and the Judge proceeded to repeat verbatim…

R. v BTT[2021] EWCA Crim 4 – Criminal Exploitation and inconsistent accounts

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This was a leave to appeal case but builds upon the interesting issues relating to criminal exploitation and the case of DPP v M recently reported in this blog. It was taken…

R. (on the application of Financial Conduct Authority) v Abdel-Malek – Not the role of the Court of assess the “Feel of a Trial “

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This was an appeal in a complex fraud case, the Court carefully assessed the fresh evidence to determine whether this would have an impact on the safety of the conviction but declined…