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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Post Office Horizon Inquiry concluded with submissions from lawyers representing the sub-postmasters, former Post-Office CEO Paula Vennells, and the Post Office itself. Lawyers representing the ...

Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan 22 Nov Miscarriages of Justice ...

The expanding reach of equality law has been making in-roads into human rights based challenges to state detention for some time now, not always successfully. A recent case shows just how much scope ...

A prisons charity has called for the ‘radical transformation’ of the role of prison officers in the face of systemic staffing issues and increased numbers of prisoners serving long sentences. The ...

Peter Glover, formerly a Sergeant in the Hertfordshire Police Force, was demoted to a Constable after a hearing found he was ‘not fundamentally unfit to be a police officer’ despite admitting that he ...

An undercover police officer who tricked a woman into a relationship and fathered her son behaved ‘recklessly’ according to the ongoing ‘Spycops’ inquiry. The inquiry heard last week from Bob Lambert, ...

A prison charity has responded to a government spending report warning we can’t ‘build our way out of’ the prison crisis. The Howard League for Penal Reform responded a report from the National Audit ...