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MoJ scraps policy of destroying court records after seven years: MoJ confirms to academic Brian Thornton that trial records will be kept as long as the prison sentence – possibly indefinitely. A surprising (and belated) victory for the Open Justice Charter thejusticegap.com/open-justice...

Our latest report in the @justicegap.bsky.social highlights how the government, police and courts decontextualised the riots, severing them from issues of structural discrimination and systemic racism. www.thejusticegap.com/courts-downp...

"It has been ten years since the Supreme Court admitted that the law on joint enterprise had ‘taken a wrong turn." As we mark ten years since the Jogee ruling, I’ve written in @justicegap.bsky.social about why justice cannot wait another ten years 👇 www.thejusticegap.com/kim-johnson-...

Turns out 'the man with no alibi' always had one: Dorset Police accused of 'framing' Omar Benguit and 'burying' alibi. BBC's Bronagh Munro on an appalling miscarriage of justice thejusticegap.com/omar-benguit...

Appeal judges accused of serially ‘failing to learn lessons of past’: @APPGMJ hears from Justin Plummer, Peter Sullivan & Oliver Campbell who spent a total of 77 yrs wrongly imprisoned - all had convictions overturned but not a penny in compensation paid: thejusticegap.com/appeal-judge...

Powerful APPG on Miscarriages of Justice event hearing from Oliver Campbell, Peter Sullivan & Justin Plummer – three wrongly convicted men who spent a total of 77 years in prison. Their stories show a system failing people twice: convicting the innocent & abandoning them after release.

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...

The Birmingham Four: terrorist masterminds – or victims of a police fit-up?

In August 2017, four men were jailed for life at the Old Bailey for plotting a terrorist attack. They were caught in an undercover police sting, and their defence lawyers insist their case continues t...

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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...