With today’s ruling, pressure is mounting for compensation, institutional reform, and potentially a public inquiry. For Hayes ...

Introduction: The Wrong Kind of Confession There are many reasons people confess to crimes they didn’t commit. In Oliver Campbell’s case, the explanation for his confession lies in misunderstanding, ...

Missing forensic evidence looks to jeopardise the trial of convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot for a 1991 murder case in which ...

The Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was introduced a decade ago to enable ‘minor’ offences to be dealt with in closed ...

The final convictions of members of the so-called ‘Stockwell Six’ have been overturned at the court of appeal almost half a ...

The number of cases stuck for more than two years under review at the Criminal Cases Review Commission has topped a hundred for the first time, more than doubling in the last five years. In the CCRC’s ...

When her grandson died, Julie called Mark to talk strategy. But Mark, hearing the grief in her voice, said: ‘ Sod the CCRC. Let’s worry about you.’ ‘ He’s a good man,’ she says. They speak a few times ...