Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

The current inquiries into historical child abuse in England and Wales and in Scotland entail that, once again, the actions of residential care workers come under heightened scrutiny. As a former ...

In his article of 9th February 2024 on the Justice Gap, “If Justice were a delusion, it would not be worth fighting for,” Here Francis Fitzgibbon KC initially suggests that I now think that the ...

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 ...

Almost 800 years of additional time imposed on inmates for rule breaking last year has exacerbated overcrowding, resentment and safety issues in prisons, a leading charity has warned. Report by Piers ...

I can’t remember when I first met Edward Conteh. It may have been at one of his 10 deportation hearings myself and other JENGbA campaigners attended at the Immigration and Asylum Court at Taylor House ...

Lawyers who represented the men and women wrongly convicted of the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings this week warned about a return to ‘the bad old days’, called for ‘a complete reconstruction’ ...

A review of sentencing following a growing crisis in prisons in the UK has found the government might be considering shifting towards a ‘good behaviour credit’ system. Justice Secretary Shabana ...

With a new drama about Ruth Ellis’s trial and execution for murder seventy years ago coming to television, Neil Root looks at how in just five years the leading lawyer Christmas Humphreys, also ...

The lawyer of a man who spent 17 years wrongly imprisoned and received just £46 from the state has called on the Lord Chancellor to urgently reform compensation arrangements for the victims of ...

An inquest into the death of a man who died after falling from a bridge into the Thames has found police tasered him three times before he entered the river. Oladeji Omishore, 41, was experiencing a ...

Anne Flynn Scott Jenkins and Euan McIlvride 15 Jun Miscarriages of Justice ...