Charlie Taylor claimed that the police and prison service had effectively ‘ceded the airspace’ above two high security prisons to organised crime gangs delivering contraband by drones. He argued that ...

The Post Office Horizon scandal, which led to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in human history, caused 13 people to take their own lives according to a new report laying bare the ...

Joint enterprise – also known as secondary liability or complicity – has long been a contested area of criminal law in ...

A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police ...

#PayUp4TimeSpent The proportion of successful compensation claims fell from 46% pre-2014 to 7% – down 39% Between 2016 and 2024, the total number of successful compensation claims was 39, less than 5 ...

The incoming interim chair of the miscarriage of justice watchdog has described the leadership at the troubled organization as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dismissive’. Dame Vera Baird KC told the the BBC Radio ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

MPs have called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s chief exec to go as part of ‘root and branch reform’ required to fix the troubled watchdog body which presently has no chair. The House of ...

An interim chair has been finally identified for the Criminal Cases Review Commission – although a name has yet to be released. The crisis at the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog deepened this ...

A man who has served 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence emerged. The exoneration of Peter Sullivan comes after 16 ...

Seventeen years into a life sentence, former nurse Colin Norris will have his conviction re-examined by the Court of Appeal in a hearing beginning today – four years after his case being referred by ...

‘Radical’ change is needed in the criminal appeals system to avoid future miscarriages of justice like the case of Oliver Campbell, exonerated last year after a 34-year fight to clear his name, ...