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.
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In this CCRC Referral which followed the case of R v Stephen Simmons [2018] EWCA Crim 114 , these 1972 convictions were quashed on the basis that these were convictions arising out…
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The Court of Appeal Criminal Division did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal against conviction for a summary offence which had been committed to the Crown Court under the Crime and…
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The Registrar of Criminal Appeals had no power to determine the substantive merits of an application for leave to appeal, but had to refer such applications to the full court pursuant to…
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In a complex Mutli Defendant Trial where a Jury member had accessed the internet and informed other Jurors that a Defendant had been previously convicted , the Court concluded it was necessary…
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