A case to be heard in the Supreme Court tomorrow could have significant implications for people trying to seek justice after someone has been driven to take their own life after being a victim domestic abuse.The highest court in the
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Two more wrongful convictions linked to corrupt detective Ridgewell
Two men convicted as teenagers in a case involving disgraced police officer Derek Ridgewell have had their convictions referred for review, taking the number of people whose cases linked to the corrupt detective have been referred by the Criminal Cases
Two men freed after two decades under indefinite prison sentences
Two men jailed indefinitely as teenagers have been freed after spending two decades in custody, despite minimum terms of less than three years, the Guardian reports.Luke Ings and Liam Bennett had their sentences overturned and replaced with shorter terms at
Five bankers’ rate-rigging wrongful convictions overturned by Court of Appeal
Five city traders have had their convictions overturned in the Court of Appeal after serving jail sentences for rigging interest rates while working at Barclays bank.Philippe Moryoussef, Jay Merchant, Colin Bermingham, Jonathan Mathew, and Alex Pabon were convicted following prosecutions
Super complaint launches over police ‘revenge porn’ failures
A police super complaint has been launched over forces’ ‘systemic failures’ to police image-based sex crimes.The challenge draws on testimony from over 100 survivors, police data from across England and Wales, and input from frontline organisations working with survivors of
‘How do you fix 28 years of somebody’s life wrongly taken away?’
A man who spent 28 years in prison after being wrongly convicted twice features in a new series on miscarriages of justice. Justin Plummer, whose case first featured on the Justice Gap, has done his first television interview with actor
Government drops controversial plan to scrap jury trials
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has abandoned Starmer’s controversial plans to remove the right to jury trials for thousands of Crown Court cases after backlash from lawyers, campaigners, and MPs.The reversal, announced on 4 October, scraps proposals for judge-only trials in
Hundreds of prisoners released early under new rules
Just 24 hours after new release rules came into effect, hundreds of prisoners have begun leaving jails across England and Wales earlier than previously expected, amid concerns about accommodation and probation capacity.The Ministry of Justice estimated that 700 prisoners would
‘Kafkaesque’: Colin Norris’s legal team on Court of Appeal
Colin Norris’s legal team have hit out at a ‘Kafkaesque’ Court of Appeal for ignoring new evidence and ‘blocking’ access to the Supreme Court. A new BBC podcast series presented by journalist Louise Shorter re-examines the case of the former
CPS to consider manslaughter charges against 54 people
The Crown Prosecution Service has been asked to consider manslaughter and other criminal charges against 54 people and 20 companies and organisations over the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people.The Metropolitan police said yesterday that it had submitted all