The second annual monitoring scheme for joint enterprise has revealed that almost one in five defendants last year was a child including three under the age of thirteen. According to data released today by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) more
Two men more victims of the corrupt British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell have had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal. In April 1976, Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs were convicted of theft of 13 mailbags and their
Two leading statisticians have expressed ‘frustration’ at the failure of the 18 month long inquiry into the events that led to the convictions of Lucy Letby to get to grips with the analysis of data. Professor Jane Hutton, professor of
Every Crown Court in England and Wales will have at least one courtroom dedicated to rape and serious sexual-offence cases within the next two years, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on 21 September. Under an unspecified multimillion-pound investment, specialist courtrooms
The government is considering making it harder for inquests to conclude that someone was unlawfully killed, in a move that could affect findings concerning deaths involving police, prisons and other state bodies. The Ministry of Justice opened a consultation on
One of the four Muslim men known collectively as the Birmingham Four who claimed to have been fitted up by an undercover policing operation addressed a meeting convened to mark the 10 year anniversary of their conviction. Khobaib Hussain told
The Thirlwall inquiry which published yesterday has been variously criticised as being ‘myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’ for pushing on with a report ignoring ‘swirling’ concerns over the safety of her convictions. The 18 month investigation into what happened
One in six people are consulting AI chatbots for help with legal issues, according to new research from the law reform charity JUSTICE and the Administrative Fairness Lab.The study, the first look at public use of AI in this setting,
