Annotated feedback on the Law Commission's expanded Terms of Reference by Dr Michael Naughton
In July 2022, the Government asked the Law Commission of England and Wales to review the law relating to appeals in criminal cases,...
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Innocence Art and the Art of Innocence
'Andy Malkinson' by Sean Bw Parker Introduction The purpose of this article is to formally launch the Innocence Art project under the...
Robin Garbutt writes an Open Letter to the Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)
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...
I believe there to be a great miscarriage of justice in the case of Robin Garbutt by Vanessa Golding
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...
Paul Glover – the smoking teapot reveals his innocence!
On 21 December 1994, Paul Glover was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment alongside four co-defendants for handling stolen goods as part...
CCRC: Is Terry Smith a victim of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
Terry Smith In this article we delve into the case of Terry Smith and the refusal of the CCRC to investigate his thoroughly documented...
How long will the Jeremy Bamber Campaign Team remain in a state of inertia and omerta?
Jeremy Bamber is seemingly fortunate to have a group of supporters who proclaim his innocence and maintain a website outlining his claims...
The Empowering the Innocent (ETI) Conference - 2023
The Wills Memorial Building, home to the University of Bristol Law School. The Empowering the Innocent (ETI) organisation was founded by...
The investigative outlook that the CCRC must develop
Jeremy Bamber Anyone who experiences the CCRC approach to investigating miscarriages of justice soon realises one important thing – the...
PRESS RELEASE: 30 MARCH 2023
Abolish s.13 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 ("real possibility test") of the CCRC so innocent victims can overturn their convictions....
Retired Detective Superintendent Michael Ainsley has died - CCRC must not let justice die with him
Jeremy Bamber "...all of the information revealed in this article is contained within the files listed above. How did the CCRC miss the...
The case of Clive Freeman: Why the Criminal Cases Review Commission is in urgent need of reform
Clive Freeman playing polo Introduction It seems something of a cruel irony that one of Britain’s longest serving alleged victims of...
The CCRC's scaremongering threats: The manipulation of judicial review in the case of Robin Garbutt
In a previous article ‘Why the CCRC must be urgently reformed: A case study of Robin Garbutt’s alleged wrongful conviction’, Sophie...
Towards a CCRC fit for the 21st Century
The present-day structure of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is largely unchanged from that proposed and implemented 25 years...
Is Clive Freeman’s claim of innocence plausible?
Dr Richard Shepherd "Why must I always be right when it is the human condition to be wrong sometimes? Answer, because the adversarial...
Is Helen Pitcher, the dilettante Chairman of the CCRC, ‘spinning’ its abolition?
Helen Pitcher The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the last hope for alleged innocent victims of wrongful convictions who fail...
Is there CCRC deception involved in referring the case of Andrew Malkinson?
Andrew Malkinson The Criminal Cases Review Commission (“CCRC”) has announced that the case of Andrew Malkinson is being referred to the...
CCRC Chairman Helen Pitcher blusters and embellishes over the case of Andy Malkinson
Andrew Malkinson First, the good news is that Andy Malkinson’s case has finally been referred to the Court of Appeal. Mr. Malkinson was...
A Media Witch-Hunt and the Imprisonment of an Innocent Teenager? The Ongoing Case of Luke Mitchell
Luke Mitchell This article relates to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), the 2nd such post-appeal body to be...
What if the CCRC had unlimited funding?
A submission to the Law Commission's review of the appeals system Introduction A UK Government and Parliament Petition emerged recently...
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