About

Empowering the Innocent (ETI) was established in September 2019 by Dr Michael Naughton, a leading scholar on miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of innocent victims who has received numerous awards and prizes for his research and wider activities.

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Empowering the Innocent (ETI) builds on previous innovative projects that were established by Dr Naughton, namely Innocence Network UK (INUK) and the University of Bristol Innocence Project, reflecting on both the successes and achievements of those projects as well as the lessons learnt.

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This time, however, rather than providing pro bono casework assistance to alleged innocent victims of wrongful convictions in terms of applications to the CCRC as under the innocence project model, Empowering the Innocent (ETI), instead, highlights failings of the criminal justice system in facilitating false allegations and wrongful convictions as a way of fostering widespread public support for reforms to the criminal justice system aimed at preventing false allegations and wrongful convictions from occurring or allow for them to be overturned when they occur.

 

Overall, the emphasis of the criminal justice system must be on the pursuit of truth in the investigation of alleged crimes and claims of innocence by alleged innocent victims of false allegations and wrongful convictions.

 

Only then can true justice prevail for victims of crime and innocent victims of wrongful convictions alike.

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