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Justice on trial

Justice on trial is a running investigation that aims to highlight cases where there are major concerns of a miscarriage of justice

16 June 2017

  • Josh Bornstein

    Our politicians show an alarming ignorance of the separation of powers

    Josh Bornstein
    Three Turnbull ministers have expressed regret but refused to apologise for their criticism of terror sentencing when hauled before the Victorian supreme court

21 April 2017

  • Supporters of ClientEarth’s legal challenge against the government over air pollution outside the High Court in London

    Environmental charities allowed to challenge changes to court cost rules

    High court judge has agreed to limit RSPB, ClientEarth and FoE’s costs liabilities to £10,000 in their action against the Ministry of Justice’s changes to costs cap

19 March 2017

  • Stephen Purvis

    'From now on you have no name. You are prisoner 217': life in a Cuban jail

    A brutal high-security prison was the last place Stephen Purvis expected to end up when he moved to Havana. Stephen Gibbs tells his story

28 February 2017

  • A protest against third runway at Heathrow

    Environment groups fear cost rules may deter vital court challenges

    RSPB, ClientEarth and FoE launch judicial review of Ministry of Justice’s change to costs cap already criticised by UN and peers

10 June 2015

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    Prosecutors improperly withheld crucial evidence from trial of protesters

    Police and prosecutors are facing claims that they have systematically - and unfairly - concealed the operations of undercover officers from the trials of protesters

20 January 2015

  • Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton, Pavilion, asked Parliamentary question about the continuing inquiry into the infiltration of political groups

    Inquiry into unjust convictions caused by undercover operations to last longer than expected

    More than 50 activists have so far been wrongly convicted or prosecuted but this total could rise if inquiry finds police concealed evidence gathered by undercover officers in other trials

30 October 2014

  • Duncan Campbell

    George Thatcher’s book revisits a great unresolved miscarriage of justice

    Duncan Campbell
    Duncan Campbell: Fitted Up, his tale of the Mitcham Co-op Murder, his 18 years in prison and the fight to prove his innocence, is a valuable contribution

16 June 2014

  • Portrait of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, wrongly convicted of killing her abusive husband

    Inside Justice puts list of miscarriage cases and TV programme archive online

    Films of BBC's Rough Justice and Channel 4's Trial and Error serve as reminder of how long some waited for case to be heard, writes Duncan Campbell

10 March 2014

  • Duncan Campbell

    Kevin Nunn's supreme court challenge 'test case for miscarriages of justice'

    Duncan Campbell
    Appeal hinges on new forensic tests not available when Kevin Nunn was convicted of murdering his former partner

7 February 2014

  • John Heibner was jailed for murder in 1976 and served 25 years

    John Heibner's appeal fails, but 40-year fight against murder conviction goes on

    Armed robber insists he is innocent of shooting in murder case seen as one of Britain's longest running miscarriages of justice

3 January 2014

  • Former Guatemalan dictator José Efraín Rios Montt

    'Lawyers in some countries are disappeared simply for doing their jobs'

    Duncan Campbell: Alliance of Lawyers at Risk urgently seeks new supporters and activists to provide unarmed protection for those under threat

31 December 2013

  • Duncan Campbell

    Application made for Stephen Ward conviction to be overturned

    Duncan Campbell
    Society osteopath in Profumo affair in 1963 killed himself just as his trial for living off the earnings of a prostitute was ending

13 December 2013

  • Royal Courts of Justice

    Man wrongly convicted of sexual assault is freed after 17 years in jail

    Appeal court overturns Victor Nealon's conviction after DNA evidence points to another perpetrator

26 November 2013

  • Campaign to free Stacey Hyde

    Stacey Hyde: life imprisonment for 'acting out of fear'

    Stacey Hyde was 17 when she killed a man and was sentenced for murder. Campaigners believe her case highlights the problems young women face when standing trial. Kira Cochrane reports

20 November 2013

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    Appeal court referral is a welcome boost for university Innocence Projects

    Jon Robins
    Jon Robins: Dwaine George's case is the first to be referred by students from a university-based Innocence Project

6 November 2013

  • Castro delivers a speech in front of a poster of four of the 'Cuba five' at a Havana rally in 2003

    'Miami five' case in unprecendented London hearing

    Fifteen years after their US arrest, five Cuban men convicted of espionage are to have a hearing in London

4 September 2013

  • John Paul Wootton

    Craigavon Two suitable scapegoats in wake of killing backlash, say supporters

    Duncan Campbell: Campaigners claim miscarriage of justice ahead of appeal against conviction for murder of Pc Stephen Carroll in Northern Ireland

8 August 2013

  • Simon Hall

    Man confesses to woman's murder after decade trying to clear name

    Simon Hall confesses to 2001 murder of 79-year-old Joan Albert after series of appeals and appearance on BBC's Rough Justice

25 July 2013

  • A 'wrap' containing cocaine. Picture by James Boardman. Image shot 01/2005. Exact date unknown.

    Court of appeal rejects drug smuggler's battered woman defence

    Goldie Coats's appeal against 10-year sentence after being caught at Heathrow with cocaine was a test case

3 July 2013

  • THE RELEASE OF THE BIRMINGHAM SIX AT THE OLD BAILEY IN 1991

    Miscarriages of justice body to receive increased funds after applications rise

    Brian Thornton: The 10% increase comes amid cuts to criminal legal aid, leading lawyers to ask whether a better funded CCRC will address the problem of lack of legal representation
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