On 4 June 1992, I sat with Judy and her legal team as the court delivered its judgment. The verdict exceeded even our most optimistic aspirations. The actions of police, prosecution and scientists who ...

On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity. The bombs were placed in the pubs with ...

A Westminster inquiry into the controversial law around joint enterprise was launched in the House of Commons on Tuesday night at an event highlighting the impact on the families and friends of those ...

It is currently not known how many young black men are currently serving a life sentence for joint enterprise murder, nor is there a record of whether they were convicted as a principal offender, a ...

A man who has served 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence emerged. The exoneration of Peter Sullivan comes after 16 ...

MPs are to due to debate proposals today to tighten up the controversial law on joint enterprise limiting its application to those who make a ‘significant contribution’ to a crime. Kim Johnson, Labour ...

Following a trainwreck meeting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s leadership team last month, the House of Commons’ justice committee has called upon the watchdog’s chief exec to go. The ...

Remembering Paddy Hill The event was an opportunity to pay respects to Paddy Joe Hill of the Birmingham Six who died before Christmas. Cathy Molloy of Paddy’s Glasgow based organisation MOJO paid the ...

A particular challenge for investigating and prosecuting reported sexual offences is the absence of forensic incriminating evidence. This is particularly so in non-recent cases reported weeks, months, ...

A family court judge was wrong not to disclose details of serious domestic abuse by a senior social worker to the regulatory body overseeing his profession, a court was told this week. The man who ...

‘Who is actually running the organisation?’ asked Andy Slaughter MP, chair of the House of Commons‘ justice committee, at a specially convened session on the work of the Criminal Cases Review ...

Leading experts have spoken to the Justice Gap about concerns over the safety of the conviction of Lucy Letby. Media restrictions pending a second trial of the former neonatal nurse prevented ...