The case of Eddie Gilfoyle has featured extensively on the Justice Gap over the years – he spoke at the launch of my book Guilty Until Proven Innocent in 2017. He has always insisted that he was ...

Anne Flynn Scott Jenkins and Euan McIlvride 15 Jun Miscarriages of Justice ...

In his article of 9th February 2024 on the Justice Gap, “If Justice were a delusion, it would not be worth fighting for,” Here Francis Fitzgibbon KC initially suggests that I now think that the ...

A former Lord Chancellor has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) of being responsible for delaying the quashing of the conviction of a man who has served 38 years in prison for murder ...

Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

From the latest issue of PROOF magazine, Charles Thompson writes about the case of Jason Moore who has spent a decade in prison for a murder he insists he didn’t commit. Put away by questionable ...

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 ...

A former chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has called the Law Commission’s proposal to scrap its controversial statutory test for referrals ‘a distraction’ and argued that it is ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...