New research reveals applicants' experiences of ‘unfriendly and dismissive’ miscarriages of justice watchdog. Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...

Miscarriage watchdog invites CPS inspectorate to review handling of wrongful convictions. CCRC interim chair Vera Baird: 'It is important that stakeholders have confidence.  We know we need the assurance of an inspection to prove that point.' thejusticegap.com/miscarriage-...

'Bonkers' Jenrick on manoeuvers: shadow justice minister expected to call for Sentencing Council to be scrapped & reveal ‘dossier’ of 30+ ‘activist’ judges who have volunteered for groups supporting refugees or posted supportive messages on social media. thejusticegap.com/bonkers-and-...

The CCRC has sent the case of Clive Freeman back to the Court of Appeal. Freeman has served 37 years for crimes he insists he did not commit. In 1989, he was convicted of arson and the murder of Alexander Hardie after Hardie was found dead in his flat thejusticegap.com/ccrc-refers-...

'If they thought they could get away with it again, they would’: Justin Plummer, free after 28yrs in prison, on having his conviction overturned in 2021, only to be reconvicted on word of a schizophrenic police informant cellmate & having that overturned: thejusticegap.com/justin-plumm...

CCRC uses 'safety valve' power for first time to refer without fresh evidence: Miscarriage watchdog sends Ben Fields case back to the Court of Appeal for the first time in 30 years invoking section 13(2). Is this a sign of a newly energised CCRC? thejusticegap.com/ccrc-uses-sa...

Joint enterprise ‘shattering lives through overreaching prosecutions’: @we-are-appeal.bsky.social's Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...

Prisons have ‘ceded airspace’ to crime gangs’ drones: ‘Overwhelming’ flood of drugs is ‘destablising’ prisons, says Chief Inspector of Prisons’ - in a category C prison a staggering 59% of prisoners tested positive for drugs. Pic Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/prisons-have...

'Science belongs in the hands of scientists, not the police': Report on launch of Westminster Commission on Forensic Science. 'If we want to avoid miscarriages of justice, we need to have strong forensic sector - not one teetering on the brink.' thejusticegap.com/science-belong

MPs to debate proposal to end ‘systemic injustice’ of joint enterprise: ‘The principle is simple,’ says @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social. ‘If you did not make a significant contribution to a crime, you should not be convicted of it.’ thejusticegap.com/mps-to-debat...

Georgia joins US states legislating for miscarriage of justice compensation. Still has death penalty, but exonerees to receive $75,000 for every year wrongfully imprisoned, plus an additional $25,000 for every year spent on death row thejusticegap.com/georgia-joins-…

'What we want is for them [the MoJ] to appreciate how low the organisation has sunk and to revive it': @hammersmithandy.bsky.social talks to the JusticeGap about the 'hollowing out' of the CCRC - 'an organisation that continually fails to learn from its mistakes' thejusticegap.com/andy-slaught...

This is my piece on the Birmingham 4 Case, which bears an eery resemblance to the Birmingham Six. Thanks loads to Jon Robins for his help – Jon wrote a great piece on them for his fantastic @justicegap.bsky.social website www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

CCRC ‘unravelling quickly’ as chair accused of misleading MPs: 'There will be more Malkinsons and more cases of that hideous nature unless the Government really grab hold of it and take charge,’ says Lord Garnier in House of Lords debate thejusticegap.com/ccrc-unravel...

'Crime is prism thru which we see society, its anxieties & phobias': Sad to hear of the death of Duncan Campbell. We spoke to him in 2017, wise & hilarious about 'poisonous relationship' btn cops & reporters 'lubricated by booze & sealed thru backhanders’: thejusticegap.com/14672/

Peter Sullivan conviction overturned after 38 yrs: exoneration has been called the longest miscarriage of justice in British justice, comes 16 yrs after first applied to CCRC. The watchdog expresses 'regret' for not having referred case first time around thejusticegap.com/peter-sulliv...

Former CCRC chair calls Law Commission proposal to scrap statutory test ‘distraction’. Prof Graham Zellick on the bigger problem of an ‘uneven' Court of Appeal with 'limited experience' of criminal law' & the 'catastrophic loss of confidence' in watchdog. thejusticegap.com/former-ccrc-...

‘The CCRC is in a state of complete collapse’: Former solicitor general Edward Garnier calls for government get a 'grip' of failing miscarriage watchdog. Retired appeal judge Baroness Butler Sloss calls for 'entire commission' to be 'set aside' thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...

Former conservative solicitor general Lord Edward Garnier KC called upon ministers to address the ‘complete collapse’ of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in a House of Lords debate yesterday @justicegap.bsky.social www.thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...

My first piece for @JusticeGap.bsky.social, about the appeal this week of former nurse Colin Norris. Dubbed the Angel of Death by the media, he has always protested his innocence of murdering elderly patients in his care www.thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...

Colin Norris appeal starts today: ‘If jury had known the facts as they stand, it’s inconceivable a guilty verdict would have been returned,' says campaign chair Paul May. Jenny Evans reports on another possible victim of unreliable scientific evidence thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...

What next for Oliver Campbell? Sam Dulieu reports on this week's @legalactiongroup.bsky.social / @justicegap.bsky.social Rough Justice event featuring Oliver's legal team and the man himself on one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice www.thejusticegap.com/rough-justic...

'Who's actually running the organisation?' Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...

'Who's actually running the organisation?' Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...

Exorbitant court transcripts are ‘a travesty of justice’: @DavidDavisMP. Tory MP quoted £100,000 for Letby transcripts 'when I pressed them it went down to £9K, way beyond the reach of most’. Justice minister Shabana Mahmood looking at an AI solution thejusticegap.com/open-justice...

How long should a 13-year-old convicted of affray have to disclose their conviction? What about someone given a short prison sentence for possession of ketamine? Find out what the public thinks in @penelopegibbs.bsky.social's article in @justicegap.bsky.social www.thejusticegap.com/does-the-pub...

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The Oliver Campbell case is one of the most appalling miscarriages of justice in recent times. Sign up for this event featuring the lawyers who've represented @Justice4ollie for 25+ years - as well as Oliver. It raises serious Qs about the Court of Appeal: thejusticegap.com/so-much-was-...

‘Nurses are being gagged. They are too frightened to speak out’: 400 plus healthcare professionals including 200 nurses call on unions to demand an independent review into the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby thejusticegap.com/nurses-are-b...

‘This case is a symptom of how lost the CCRC is’: @justicegap.bsky.social ed Jon Robins quoted in Sunday Times on the shocking Danny Major case www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

The early release of prisoners is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms, as prisons reached 99% capacity this month www.thejusticegap.com/early-releas...

HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1,500 prison places, as critics continue to cite an end to sentence inflation as the solution to the capacity crisis www.thejusticegap.com/government-u...

The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial, asserting that ‘only sustained investment' will ensure victims and defendants get justice that is both timely and fair’ www.thejusticegap.com/law-society-...

The probation service has ‘too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases’ which could undermine the department’s ability to protect the public according to a new review in the wake of a continued crisis in prisons www.thejusticegap.com/under-resour...

The prisons inspectorate has reported that prison officers largely respond poorly to applications for basic requests, leaving prisoners feeling ‘frustrated’ and disrespected www.thejusticegap.com/prisons-watc...

Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful www.thejusticegap.com/police-pay-c...

A joint response to the government’s inquiry into tackling drugs in prisons has underlined the harms in current drugs policy, highlighting that despite attention paid to drones staff and new prisoners remain the main way drugs enter the prison estate www.thejusticegap.com/joint-submis...

The Government has announced plans for a major reform of private prosecutions following concerns over ‘catastrophic failures’ in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) www.thejusticegap.com/government-a...

An inquest into the death of a man who died after falling from a bridge into the Thames has found he was tasered three times before he entered the river, and that police failed to disclose in initial statements that he wasn't 'armed with a screwdriver' www.thejusticegap.com/inquest-reve...

An investigation of the Metropolitan Police by the police watchdog has found that the force doesn’t always do enough to find missing children, and continues to mis-judge risks to children of criminal and sexual exploitation www.thejusticegap.com/gaps-remain-...

Pregnant women in prison in England are three times as likely to be diagnosed with gestational diabetes, with the new data coming amid calls to end the practice of imprisoning pregnant women entirely www.thejusticegap.com/gestational-...

The government's new Crime and Policing Bill will introduce new powers for police to tackle 'low level' crime such as mobile phone theft, and add new offences to 'take back our streets and town centres' www.thejusticegap.com/new-offences...

The Metropolitan Police is facing renewed criticism after revelations that over 1,000 officers were hired without reference checks, despite official guidelines requiring them www.thejusticegap.com/met-police-f...

Following a review of the criminal courts, legal experts argue that reforming joint enterprise laws could help resolve the growing crisis in the criminal justice system www.thejusticegap.com/reforming-jo...

New research has condemned ‘predictive policing’ in the UK, arguing the practice ‘supercharges racism’, resulting in discrimination and infringement of human rights while failing to lower crime levels www.thejusticegap.com/predictive-p...

Andrew Malkinson is to receive an initial ‘six-figure’ compensation payout after suffering one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern times, becoming one of a tiny handful of wrongfully convicted people to receive any recompense in the last decade www.thejusticegap.com/andy-malkins...

An inquest into the deaths of three inmates at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire has exposed serious failings in prison management, raising concerns about the safety of vulnerable prisoners www.thejusticegap.com/systemic-fai...

A jury at the Old Bailey has acquitted six young Black boys of all charges after rejecting the prosecution’s attempt to convict them of murder under controversial joint enterprise laws www.thejusticegap.com/six-black-bo...

An inspection of Durham prison has found a drastic increase in prisoner on prisoner violence and and a failure to tackle rising drug use www.thejusticegap.com/prison-inspe...

Andrew Malkinson is to receive an initial ‘six-figure’ compensation payout after suffering one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern times, becoming one of a tiny handful of wrongfully convicted people to receive any recompense in the last decade www.thejusticegap.com/andy-malkins...