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CCRC Watch: Can we transform the current miscarriages of justice ‘lapdog’ into a genuine ‘watchdog’ body that can truly assist innocent...

The case of Andy Malkinson highlights a serious problem in the criminal justice system, that of the police seizing and having control...

Convicted murderer Robin Garbutt recently (27 July) wrote an open letter to the CCRC Chairman Helen Pitcher, pointing out various aspects...

"There are so many falsehoods in that brief statement it is hard to know where to begin." On the same day that CCRC Watch highlighted...

Andrew Malkinson The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) exists to establish the truth. How ironic that what it does more often than...

In July 2022, the Government asked the Law Commission of England and Wales to review the law relating to appeals in criminal cases,...

'Andy Malkinson' by Sean Bw Parker Introduction The purpose of this article is to formally launch the Innocence Art project under the...

Diana (Di) and Robbin Garbutt Dear Helen Pitcher, 13 years ago on the 23rd of March 2010 I was robbed at gunpoint, seconds later I found...

My name is Vanessa Golding. My husband and I were close friends of both Diana and Robin Garbutt. This letter is to highlight some of the...

On 21 December 1994, Paul Glover was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment alongside four co-defendants for handling stolen goods as part...

Terry Smith In this article we delve into the case of Terry Smith and the refusal of the CCRC to investigate his thoroughly documented...

Jeremy Bamber is seemingly fortunate to have a group of supporters who proclaim his innocence and maintain a website outlining his claims...

The Wills Memorial Building, home to the University of Bristol Law School. The Empowering the Innocent (ETI) organisation was founded by...

Jeremy Bamber Anyone who experiences the CCRC approach to investigating miscarriages of justice soon realises one important thing – the...

Jeremy Bamber "...all of the information revealed in this article is contained within the files listed above. How did the CCRC miss the...

Clive Freeman playing polo Introduction It seems something of a cruel irony that one of Britain’s longest serving alleged victims of...

In a previous article ‘Why the CCRC must be urgently reformed: A case study of Robin Garbutt’s alleged wrongful conviction’, Sophie...

The present-day structure of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is largely unchanged from that proposed and implemented 25 years...

Dr Richard Shepherd "Why must I always be right when it is the human condition to be wrong sometimes? Answer, because the adversarial...