The results of a secret inquiry into MI5 have found serious failings in the way they handled a misogynistic and abusive agent ...
On 7 and 8 July, the High Court in London will hear a case that asks a deceptively simple question: are workers who lose ...
The criminal court backlog has a number attached to it. Depending on which report you read, it is somewhere north of sixty thousand cases. Lawyers know it. Campaigners cite it. Politicians debate it.
The man convicted of the murder of Lin and Megan Russell in 1996 is to have a new DNA sample taken this week as part of his ...
The CPS is currently changing the wording of the crown prosecutors’ code to tackle ‘unconscious bias’ as a result of concerns ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Christine Keeler‘s 1963 conviction for perjury was the ‘ultimate in slut-shaming’ and a posthumous exoneration would be an opportunity to acknowledge historic discrimination against women in the ...
Since reporting restrictions were lifted following the trial, and re-trial, of Lucy Letby, concerns, doubts and speculation as to her guilt have emerged. Letby remains behind bars at HMP Bronzefield, ...
A fresh investigation into the case of Jeremy Bamber, convicted of murdering his family in 1985, has revealed ‘significant evidence’ and police failings that may indicate he was wrongly convicted. A ...