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‘I Got More Justice from Mugabe than I Ever Got from Britain’
13 March 2020
, 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.

Celebrate the Success of the ‘Oval Four’ – But Don’t Forget the Many Others Trapped in a Broken System
6 December 2019
, 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

THE JUSTICE TRAP: Why the Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is in Crisis
5 September 2019
, Jon Robins on the case of Oliver Campbell and what it reveals about our creaking criminal justice system.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: The Carl Beech Case Reveals the Potential for Injustice with Historical Allegations of Abuse
1 August 2019
, Jon Robins on what the imprisonment of the fantasist known as 'Nick' shows about how false allegations can ruin lives.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: How the Cash-Strapped Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is No Longer Independent or Doing Its Job
24 July 2019
, 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.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: A Miscarriage of Justice is a Lifelong Sentence
11 July 2019
, The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.

AUSTERITY JUSTICE: On the Edge of Homelessness with No Legal Aid
2 July 2019
, 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.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: The Non-Disclosure Crisis is Not New and Not About Cash-Strapped Police
27 June 2019
, 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.

AUSTERITY JUSTICE: No Lawyers, No Advice – the ‘Legal Aid Desert’ Created by Cuts
12 June 2019
, 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.

AUSTERITY JUSTICE: ‘The Death of an Idea’ – How Legal Aid Cuts are Causing Systematic Poverty
7 June 2019
, 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

THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘Our courts will bend over backwards to uphold a conviction which is obviously unsafe’
14 May 2019
, 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.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: No Forensics, No CCTV – 17 Years in Prison on the Evidence of an “Admitted Liar”
7 May 2019
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘No Hope’ of Justice for Eddie Gilfoyle after 18 Years in Prison for his Wife’s Hanging
29 April 2019
, The Criminal Cases Review Commission provides no effective safety net for victims of a miscarriage of justice – Eddie Gilfoyle is a striking example.

THE JUSTICE TRAP: Was a Police Officer Sacked and Jailed for a Violent Assault actually the Victim of a Cover-Up?
18 April 2019
, 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.

The Justice Trap: Sacrificed to the System
10 April 2019
, 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

The Justice Trap: Joint Enterprise Part 2
2 April 2019
, Jon Robin’s second account of how the law of joint enterprise “exposes all that is wrong in our justice system”.

The Justice Trap: Joint Enterprise
22 March 2019
, Jon Robins from @JusticeGap with another fascinating case of injustice - this time around a law that presumes guilt for bystanders

The Justice Trap: Murder by Numbers
13 March 2019
, 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

The Justice Trap: How Medical Orthodoxy can be Judge, Jury and Executioner
7 March 2019
, Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?

The Justice Trap: It Could Be You
1 March 2019
, 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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