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Baroness Louise Casey was commissioned to produce the report earlier this year. She said the system failed due to ‘blindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness, and even good but misdirected ...

A prison in Nottinghamshire has been given ‘the worst possible score’ on safety in its latest inspection by the prisons watchdog. An inspection report on HMP Lowdham Grange has revealed critical ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to receive a real-term 1.8% spending increase according to the latest spending review announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday. The funding boost includes money ...

A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police ...

The incoming interim chair of the miscarriage of justice watchdog has described the leadership at the troubled organization as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dismissive’. Dame Vera Baird KC told the the BBC Radio ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

There were renewed calls last week for a reinvestigation into the alleged wrongful conviction of Eddie Gilfoyle. It was revealed that a former head of Merseyside CID, who led the investigation which ...

Jon is editor of the Justice Gap. He is a criminology lecturer at Brighton University and vice chair of the Legal Action Group. Books include Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, ...

‘Radical’ change is needed in the criminal appeals system to avoid future miscarriages of justice like the case of Oliver Campbell, exonerated last year after a 34-year fight to clear his name, ...

‘Who is actually running the organisation?’ asked Andy Slaughter MP, chair of the House of Commons‘ justice committee, at a specially convened session on the work of the Criminal Cases Review ...

Remembering Paddy Hill The event was an opportunity to pay respects to Paddy Joe Hill of the Birmingham Six who died before Christmas. Cathy Molloy of Paddy’s Glasgow based organisation MOJO paid the ...