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Will a Police Officer Sacked and Jailed for a Violent Assault Finally Be Able to Clear His Name?
After years of inaction, the Criminal Case Review Commission has finally referred the case of PC Danny Major to the Court of Appeal
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‘The Miscarriage of Justice Watchdog Urgently Needs to Fight for Its Independence and Prioritise Getting Innocent People Out of Prison’
As Andrew Malkinson’s case shows, the Criminal Cases Review Commission has become an organisation obsessed with hitting key performance indicators – mainly relating to deadlines and ‘closing’ files, writes Jon Robins
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‘The Andrew Malkinson Scandal Exposes a Justice System that Fails the Wrongly Accused’
The UK’s miscarriages of justice watchdog failed to protect Malkinson, who remained in jail for 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit
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‘I Got More Justice from Mugabe than I Ever Got from Britain’
Jon Robins explores the case of Clive Freeman, who was jailed in 1989 for murder but has always protested his innocence and is now mounting a fourth attempt for his guilty verdict to be reconsidered.
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Celebrate the Success of the ‘Oval Four’ – But Don’t Forget the Many Others Trapped in a Broken System
The overturning of the convictions of the ‘Oval Four’ by the Court of Appeal shows our under-funded and chaotic criminal justice system working. Unfortunately this is an exception not the rule
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Why the Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is in Crisis
Jon Robins on the case of Oliver Campbell and what it reveals about our creaking criminal justice system.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: The Carl Beech Case Reveals the Potential for Injustice with Historical Allegations of Abuse
Jon Robins on what the imprisonment of the fantasist known as ‘Nick’ shows about how false allegations can ruin lives.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: How the Cash-Strapped Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is No Longer Independent or Doing Its Job
Jon Robins explores the state of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the dwindling number of potential miscarriages of justice being referred to the Court of Appeal.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: A Miscarriage of Justice is a Lifelong Sentence
The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: On the Edge of Homelessness with No Legal Aid
Jon Robins spends a day at a court in east London where a number of tenants about to be evicted – who should be provided with legal aid – are relying on a duty lawyer.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: The Non-Disclosure Crisis is Not New and Not About Cash-Strapped Police
Jon Robins on why the failure of key evidence to be disclosed in criminal trials in recent years has long been an issue leading to miscarriages of justice.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: No Lawyers, No Advice – the ‘Legal Aid Desert’ Created by Cuts
Chris Grayling’s 2013 cuts slashed the legal aid budget by a third – £751 million. Jon Robins examines the toll this is taking on people’s everyday lives.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: ‘The Death of an Idea’ – How Legal Aid Cuts are Causing Systematic Poverty
Jon Robins sets out how the erosion of ‘access to justice’ for huge swathes of social welfare law is having a very real impact on poverty in the UK
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘Our courts will bend over backwards to uphold a conviction which is obviously unsafe’
Jon Robins explores why Tony Stock has spent more than 40 years fighting to clear his name for an armed robbery a supergrass admits he had nothing to do with.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: No Forensics, No CCTV – 17 Years in Prison on the Evidence of an “Admitted Liar”
Omar Benguit is still trying to prove his innocence for the murder of a student he is adamant he had nothing to do with. Omar Benguit has spent almost 17 years in prison for the senseless killing of a Korean student in Bournemouth as she walked back from a nightclub in the early hours of…
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘No Hope’ of Justice for Eddie Gilfoyle after 18 Years in Prison for his Wife’s Hanging
The Criminal Cases Review Commission provides no effective safety net for victims of a miscarriage of justice – Eddie Gilfoyle is a striking example.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Was a Police Officer Sacked and Jailed for a Violent Assault actually the Victim of a Cover-Up?
PC Danny Major spent four months in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Faced with an unhelpful and inactive miscarriages of justice watchdog, he is still fighting to clear his name.
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The Justice Trap: Sacrificed to the System
Jon Robins on how even the intervention of an Appeal Court Judge has failed to help a family caught up in child sexual abuse conviction
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The Justice Trap: Joint Enterprise Part 2
Jon Robin’s second account of how the law of joint enterprise “exposes all that is wrong in our justice system”.
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The Justice Trap: Joint Enterprise
Jon Robins from @JusticeGap with another fascinating case of injustice – this time around a law that presumes guilt for bystanders
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The Justice Trap: Murder by Numbers
Ben Geen was caught red-handed – a serial killer, or so it seemed. In the third of his series The Justice Trap, Jon Robins shows how a misreading of statistics led to a life sentence
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The Justice Trap: How Medical Orthodoxy can be Judge, Jury and Executioner
Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?
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The Justice Trap: It Could Be You
In the first of a new series examining the failings of our criminal justice system, Jon Robins explores why this should matter to us all.
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‘Victimised Twice Over’: Supreme Court Rules Against the Wrongly Convicted
The Supreme Court’s ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.
