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Problems of, and help for miscarriage of justice victims |
Prisoners who maintain their innocence |
Trawling in sexual abuse cases |
Forensic science |
In prison |
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With the Guantánamo Bay detainees freed the champion of the underdog has struck another high-profile victory. But the radical defence lawyer would far rather the spotlight shone on the plight of terrorist suspects held without trial. By
Owen Bowcott,
Friday January 14, 2005 |
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Dr Michael Naughton finds a new category of perverse jury verdicts where the innocent face jail for crimes which never occurred |
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Too many guilty verdicts are made on questionable evidence writes Bob Woffinden in The Times |
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As the government plans a thorough overhaul of criminal justice, it needs to ask why so many unsafe convictions are overturned, says Bristol University's Dr Michael Naughton |
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In an article in the Sunday Times to mark the release of his most recent book, Ludovic Kennedy calls for a radical reform of the criminal justice system |
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Bob Woffinden meets Gisli Gudjonsson, whose pioneering studies changed the face of law |
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Clare Dyer of the Guardian looks at the case of Angela Cannings - who was recently jailed for the murder of two of her babies |
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Frances Gibb of The Times looks at the work of the CCRC |
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The disturbing case of Dr Bill Thompson, a criminologist specialising in child abuse, and a police search for pornography. Why was his home raided when he has legal protection? |
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An (extensive) article by Bob Woffinden in the New Statesman from 1998 |
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Young, foolish, but not criminal: Sarah Wilson is serving 12 years for importing drugs she didn't know she was carrying. The man who planted them got just eight years ... |
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Zakaria Erzinglioglu argues for a review of the jury system |
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A man kills his unfaithful wife and gets two years. A woman kills her violent partner and gets life. Not fair, says Justice For Women, 10 years old tomorrow |
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Racism and injustice |
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An article on Satpal Ram from the Daily Express |
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An article on Satpal Ram from June 2000 by Jeremy Hardy of the Guardian |
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The prisoner - an article by Simon Hattenstone of the Guardian |
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Various articles on the review of the criminal law prepared by appeal court judge Sir Robin Auld |
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An article looking at the dangers of revealing defendants' past convictions to a jury |
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The case for and against the 'double jeopardy' rule |
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Jon Robins writing in The Lawyer asks whether it is time to review the powers of the court of appeal |
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The right of a jury to keep its deliberations secret is sacrosanct. But what happens when it threatens to cause a miscarriage of justice? Clare Dyer of the Guardian reports |
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Clare Dyer reports about a study on juries and jurors In New Zealand |
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Bob Woffinden asks if the court of appeal is failing to do its job |
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An extensive article from Scotland's Sunday Herald looking at a number of Scottish miscarriages of justice |
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Ludovic Kennedy argues that guilty/not guilty verdicts are outdated - a case should be proven |
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An article from the New Statesman from December 2000 |
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Bob Woffinden on the role of the court of appeal and the CCRC |
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A seemingly insignificant case - yet one which reveals a great deal about how the criminal justice system does indeed get things wrong |
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An article from the Daily Express on happenings in South Wales ... |
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An article from the Observer calls for an inquiry into happenings in South Wales ... |
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Articles on the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) |
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Or out of the frying pan and into the fire ... how a mother and her daughter nearly went on trial for a murder they hadn't committed |
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A total of seven articles in the wake of the £50,000 compensation award made to Winston Silcott in 1999 |
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A 1997 article about Raphael Rowe by a former writer-in-residence at HMP Gartree |
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It's not a fair cop .... |
| Disclosure |
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Public interest immunity is supposed to protect informants, but is it now being widely used to hide police malpractice? |
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The DPP admits that the current disclosure system is not working as it should ... |
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An article by Joel Bennathan in the wake of the quashing of the M25 Three convictions |
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Articles dealing with an ever-present issue in miscarriages of justice |
| Problems of, and help for miscarriage of justice victims |
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Victims of miscarriage of justice receive less assistance
on release than the guilty. But that could soon change ... |
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What becomes of prisoners whose convictions are
quashed by the court of appeal ... |
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An article examing the thorny issue of compensation for the wrongly convicted |
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An old article from the New Statesman on the problems posed by freedom to victims of a miscarriage of justice |
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An article on the launch of MOJO, a new organisation which intends to help victims of a miscarriage of justice |
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Freedom doesn't mean you'll get your life back. An interview with Michael O'Brien on the launch of MOJO |
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An article dealing with the problems faced by victims of a miscarriage of justice once they are released |
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"Strange taste of freedom" - an interview with Andrew Evans 18 months after his release |
| Problems of prisoners who maintain their innocence |
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John Taft, a wrongly convicted life sentence prisoner, shows that by refusing parole to prisoners maintaining innocence, the Prison Service unfairly penalises the most law-abiding inmates |
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Dr Michael Naughton shows how the Parole board's own data confirms that prisoners who maintain their innocence are likely not to be granted parole |
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Penny Lewis of the Independent looks at the
problems faced by those protesting their innocence |
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An article by the investigative journalist Peter Hill in Inside Time highlighting the pressure on certain innocent prisoners to participate in a system which rewards admitting guilt |
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An article by former prisoner governor David Wilson on prisoners protesting their innocence |
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One of the problems faced by prisoners maintaining their innocence - the additional punishment for doing so |
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Prisoners maintaining their innocence at HMP Frankland win the right to challenge the governor's decision not to allow them 'enhanced' status |
| Trawling in sexual abuse cases |
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Bob Woffinden writing in The Times on yet
another case of police trawling |
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Two articles looking at 'Operation Rose', in which
Northumbria Police went trawling for victims of sexual abuse |
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An article on the police practice of 'trawling'
for 'abuse victims' |
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Care staff are being jailed for sex abuse on the evidence of accusers with questionable motives. Bob Woffinden reports |
| Forensic science |
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Zakaria Erzinglioglu looks critically at the state
of forensic sciences in Britain ... |
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The debate over fingerprint evidence in the wake of the Shirley McKie case |
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More tales of woe and confusion regarding supposedly infallible evidence ... |
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A leading police fingerprint expert resigns in order
to testify in court against what he believes is flimsy forensic evidence
that has led to unsafe convictions |
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Zakaria Erzinglioglu outlines his ideas for a reform
of the forensic science sector and why these reforms are urgently required
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A leading forensic scientist claims that experts
are often pressurised into lying ... |
| In prison |
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Articles on the July 1999 case against the Home Sec on the 'gagging' of journalists who visit prison inmates - and in particular prisoners protesting their innocence |
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Erwin James, a serving prisoner, reports on the treatment of an innocent man in prison |
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Auld lags inside .... an article by a serving life
prisoner on what the New Year brings |