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An affront to justice
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...
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‘I didn’t believe that you could get put in prison for a crime if you didn’t do it’
Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...
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‘Partly excellent, partly abysmal’: 20 years of the CCRC
Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...
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‘A year on from Jogee – and nothing has really changed’
I can’t remember when I first met Edward Conteh. It may have been at one of his 10 deportation hearings myself and other JENGbA campaigners attended at the Immigration and Asylum Court at Taylor House ...
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‘Each death represents a failure of the state’: the unrecognised scandal of prison suicides
The Government must be held to account for the rapid rise in prisoners who killed themselves after staff and resources were slashed in our jails – a risk politicians were warned about at the time of ...
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Prisons charity calls for radical transformation of ‘life and death’ prison officer roles
A prisons charity has called for the ‘radical transformation’ of the role of prison officers in the face of systemic staffing issues and increased numbers of prisoners serving long sentences. The ...
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Horizon Inquiry sees closing submissions
The Post Office Horizon Inquiry concluded with submissions from lawyers representing the sub-postmasters, former Post-Office CEO Paula Vennells, and the Post Office itself. Lawyers representing the ...
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Spycop who fathered a child whilst undercover behaved ‘recklessly’ according to inquiry
An undercover police officer who tricked a woman into a relationship and fathered her son behaved ‘recklessly’ according to the ongoing ‘Spycops’ inquiry. The inquiry heard last week from Bob Lambert, ...
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Crumbling prisons plagued by disrepair and infestations leading to ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhygienic’ conditions
Prisoners are being forced to live in ‘appalling and sometimes inhumane’ conditions according to a new investigation into the ‘crumbling’ prison estate. It has found that conditions in prisons across ...
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First civil legal aid increase since 1996
On Friday, the Ministry of Justice announced the first civil legal aid fee rise since 1996, for immigration and housing work. This development follows judicial review proceedings launched by Duncan ...
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Nuclear test veterans await justice and support ‘Hillsborough Law’ on cover-ups
Veterans who served at British nuclear testing sites from 1952 to 1991 are asking for justice as newly declassified documents suggest that they were used as ‘lab rats’ to monitor the effects of ...
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Capacity and viability of legal aid sector will worsen without reform and funding
The government may have breached its duty to provide access to justice due to grave issues in the legal aid sector. A new report commissioned by the Ministry of Justice has described a civil legal aid ...