The new head of the miscarriages of justice watchdog has said the body is ‘not there to tick a box’ but that a change of ...

Justin Plummer spent more than 27 years protesting his innocence in prison for a savage murder. On July 30, it took less than ...

‘Awful’ conditions persist in Feltham Young Offenders Institute with some boys only being allowed less than an hour out of ...

An independent review into prison capacity, released last month, found the prison system was ‘in crisis’ between autumn 2023 ...

James Timpson, renowned for his progressive business practices and unyielding advocacy for prison reform, has all the qualities to bring about a ‘sea change’ of ‘ground-breaking’ improvements in his ...

Freeman, who is in his 80s and ill with prostate cancer, applied to the CCRC six times, hoping the body would send his case back to the courts. His previous five applications, the first of which was ...

The bill has been presented as an ‘ambitious package of reforms’ to put the criminal justice system on ‘a more sustainable footing’. The impetus of the bill, a result of the sentencing review by ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has for the first time invoked a ‘safety valve’ power to send a case back to the court without having to rely on new evidence. Benjamin Field’s murder conviction ...

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 ...

The overcrowding crisis in our prisons is about to reach a dangerous zenith, as the Prison Governors Association considers taking legal action against the government in response to the impending ...

No win, no fee. Four words which have become stigmatised by more than a decade of headlines laced with terms like ‘fraud’, ‘ambulance chasing’ and ‘compensation culture’. Even today the tabloid attack ...

The case of Oliver Campbell is one of the longest and most complex miscarriages of justice in British legal history – one that only ended in September 2024 when the Court of Appeal quashed Oliver’s ...