Cognitive bias in the justice system is ‘widespread’ and ‘hidden’, according to a new research paper which argues that it is more difficult to deal with than the ‘easy to detect’ intentional bias of a ...

With today’s ruling, pressure is mounting for compensation, institutional reform, and potentially a public inquiry. For Hayes ...

Missing forensic evidence looks to jeopardise the trial of convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot for a 1991 murder case in which ...

The Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was introduced a decade ago to enable ‘minor’ offences to be dealt with in closed ...

The final convictions of members of the so-called ‘Stockwell Six’ have been overturned at the court of appeal almost half a ...

When her grandson died, Julie called Mark to talk strategy. But Mark, hearing the grief in her voice, said: ‘ Sod the CCRC. Let’s worry about you.’ ‘ He’s a good man,’ she says. They speak a few times ...

The number of cases stuck for more than two years under review at the Criminal Cases Review Commission has topped a hundred for the first time, more than doubling in the last five years. In the CCRC’s ...

Appeal judges are due to hear the 12th appeal of a wrongful conviction related to the corrupt and racist British Transport Police officer Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell. Errol Campbell will have ...

‘Partly excellent, partly abysmal’: 20 years of the CCRC Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home ...

Introduction: The Wrong Kind of Confession There are many reasons people confess to crimes they didn’t commit. In Oliver ...