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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...

Helen Pitcher The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the last hope for alleged innocent victims of wrongful convictions who fail...

Ray Gilbert This posting reports a complaint that Ray Gilbert made to the CCRC on the 30th September 2022. It concerns possible breaches...

Andrew Malkinson The Criminal Cases Review Commission (“CCRC”) has announced that the case of Andrew Malkinson is being referred to the...

Andrew Malkinson First, the good news is that Andy Malkinson’s case has finally been referred to the Court of Appeal. Mr. Malkinson was...

Luke Mitchell This article relates to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), the 2nd such post-appeal body to be...

A submission to the Law Commission's review of the appeals system Introduction A UK Government and Parliament Petition emerged recently...

Ray Gilbert Ray Gilbert is currently one of the most high profile alleged victims of wrongful conviction and imprisonment. He has been...

Is the CCRC just a plaything for dilettante Chairman Helen Pitcher[1]? Under her control the ‘Miscarriage of Justice Watchdog’ seemingly...

Diana Garbutt In 2019, the CCRC was given DNA evidence suggesting that the person who murdered Diana Garbutt could have been a police...

Naughton, M. (2022) ‘Theorising miscarriages of justice.’ Islamic Perspective. Published by the Institute for Critical Social Theory....

On the 2 May 1989, at the Central Criminal Court, Clive Freeman was convicted of the murder of Alexander Calder Hardie. Mr Freeman was...

A hand-written note made by Dickinson destroys the entire police case against Jeremy Bamber because it shows that PC Myall received a...

CCRC Statement of Reasons (SoR) rejecting John Bartlett's application When I applied to the CCRC in 2019 to review my 1995 convictions...

John Bartlett at a book signing for his first novel Chequered Justice This post is an Open Letter Reply to the CCRC by John Bartlett. It...

Sean Bw Parker was sentenced to 8 and a half years for a rape he says never happened. Introduction In this article, I outline the context...

Ray Gilbert with his results when he passed an eye lie detector test This article considers the five applications to the Criminal Cases...

After two replies (see below) to my Open Letters (see here and here) to Helen Pitcher, Chair, CCRC, I don`t feel there is too much to...

In this article, Phoenix Gay Xue Ke considers Walid Habib's application to the CCRC and its refusal to investigate his alleged wrongful...