New commissioners at the miscarriage of justice watchdog include a former director of the human rights group Liberty but lack experience in criminal appeals. Martha Spurrier, also a barrister at ...

In a bonus round-up episode, Marnie Duke talks to the human rights lawyer and criminal appeal specialist Glyn Maddocks KC and ...

The latest issue 'The Other Ones' includes the Birmingham Four, Andrew Malkinson's fight for justice, the scandal of Joint ...

A seventh case of a man serving a controversial indeterminate prison sentence has been sent to the Court of Appeal by the ...

A leading human rights barrister is facing possible contempt proceedings over a closing speech to jurors in a Palestine ...

The ban on Jeremy Bamber talking to the media has been criticised as ‘patently ridiculous and disingenuous’ and will be challenged by his legal team. As reported by Simon Hattenstone in the Guardian, ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

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The criminal court backlog has a number attached to it. Depending on which report you read, it is somewhere north of sixty thousand cases. Lawyers know it. Campaigners cite it. Politicians debate it.

The government has announced an urgent Action Plan for HMP Woodhill after inspectors found the prison ‘not safe’ due to high levels of violence, drug use and self-harm. The plan was published by the ...