Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth buried
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Ben Geen: Statisticians back former nurse’s in last chance to clear ...
Apr 10, 2020 · Mick Geen, father of Ben Geen. Leading statisticians have come out in support of a former nurse serving 30 years for murder in a final attempt to clear his name. The miscarriage of justice watchdog is expected to decide whether or not to refer the case of Ben Geen, currently in HMP Frankland, back to the Court of Appeal in the next few weeks.
Just how rare are false allegations of sexual assault?
Sep 15, 2023 · They find that the ‘most commonly cited estimates are that “approximately 5%” or “between 2% and 10%” of reports are false.’. However, they observe that ‘ the rules followed by the studies to determine whether to classify a report as “false” exclude many false and potentially false reports. Their estimates are premised on ...
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 ...
Remand Decision-Making: what is going wrong? – The Justice Gap
Dec 14, 2023 · In June 2022 the Justice Gap published an article on the increasing number of women imprisoned on remand and the concerns this raises. We now look in more detail at at the recently published report by the legal charity JUSTICE on decision-making on remand in custody. A significant part of the current prison capacity crisis is the growing remand population.