Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth ...
Mar 6, 2020 — Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth buried. On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity. The bombs were placed in the pubs with timing devices to detonate when the bomb placers were clear of Guildford.
‘A victim of British Injustice’: Derek Bentley remembered
Jan 30, 2020 — In 1953 Derek Bentley, aged 19, was convicted of the murder of PC Sidney Miles and sentenced to death. It is the most infamous example of the use of joint enterprise law. Bentley was found guilty despite neither possessing nor firing a gun and giving himself to the police without violence. His co-defendant Christopher Craig, who fired the gun ...
‘Not only a right, but a duty’: A history of perverse verdicts
May 1, 2018 — In 1771, John Adams – who would be the second President of the USA, and the country’s first Veep – wrote, of the juror, ‘It is not only his right, but his duty … to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.’. And in 1920, the great ...
Cheshire West case: ‘A gilded cage is still a cage’ - The Justice Gap
Mar 21, 2014 — The Supreme Court judgment was handed down on Wednesday in the case of P (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (Appellant) v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another (Respondents); P and Q (by their litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) (Appellants) v Surrey County Council (Respondent) [2014] UKSC 19.The AIRE Centre (represented by Leigh Day and Co) was an intervener in ...
How misuse of DNA evidence has led to miscarriages of justice
Jan 27, 2017 — DNA analysis has revolutionised forensic science; helping to catch prolific murderers and shining a light on miscarriages of justice that have seen innocent people wrongfully convicted of serious crimes. Such is the power of DNA to identify, convict, and exonerate, that many perceive it to be infallible.
Bamber: ‘significant’ new evidence revealed in Whitehouse farms …
Jul 31, 2024 — 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 17,000 word article published this week in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake (Did the U.K.’s Most Infamous Family Massacre End in a Wrongful ...
Cases the changed us: Maxwell Confait – The Justice Gap
Nov 21, 2019 — Maxwell Confait, a 26-year old homosexual prostitute who preferred to use the name 'Michelle', was found strangled in a burnt-out house on April 22, 1972. 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 ...
The Justice Gap – A magazine about law & justice – and the ...
In this issue: The Birmingham Four, The Post Office scandal, Joint Enterprise, Jason MoorePLUS Emily Dugan on the shocking story of Andrew Malkinson's 17 year fight for justice. MORE PROOF. PROOF 6: Jailed over a group chat. Fran Robertson. PROOF 6: How a …
Nils Öberg on Sweden’s miraculous prisons – The Justice Gap
Dec 2, 2014 — The state of prisons internationally represents ‘nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe waiting to happen,’ said the director of Swedish Prisons and Probation Nils Öberg last week. Delivering the annual Longford Lecture, Öberg highlighted the ways in which Sweden was ‘cracking the code’ of how to close prisons and reduce the ...
Disclosure failures: Causes, controversies and challenges
Nov 20, 2019 — In March 2018, I approached the editors of the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice to discuss having a special issue dedicated to the pressing topic of disclosure failures in England and Wales. This special issue, entitled Disclosure failures in England and Wales: Causes, controversies and challenges, has now been released.. Failures around pre-trial disclosure have gained much ...