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An online magazine about the law and justice - and the difference between the two. Buy PROOF magazine, support the Justice Gap: www.thejusticegap.com/shop. Editors: Jon Robins and Sam Dulieu
New research reveals applicants' experiences of ‘unfriendly and dismissive’ miscarriages of justice watchdog.
Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...
Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
New research reveals applicants' experiences of ‘unfriendly and dismissive’ miscarriages of justice watchdog.
Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...
Sam Dulieu reports on latest meeting of APPG on miscarriages of justice meeting. Pix: Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/new-research...
Miscarriage watchdog invites CPS inspectorate to review handling of wrongful convictions. CCRC interim chair Vera Baird: 'It is important that stakeholders have confidence. We know we need the assurance of an inspection to prove that point.' thejusticegap.com/miscarriage-...
October 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Miscarriage watchdog invites CPS inspectorate to review handling of wrongful convictions. CCRC interim chair Vera Baird: 'It is important that stakeholders have confidence. We know we need the assurance of an inspection to prove that point.' thejusticegap.com/miscarriage-...
'Bonkers' Jenrick on manoeuvers: shadow justice minister expected to call for Sentencing Council to be scrapped & reveal ‘dossier’ of 30+ ‘activist’ judges who have volunteered for groups supporting refugees or posted supportive messages on social media. thejusticegap.com/bonkers-and-...
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'Bonkers' Jenrick on manoeuvers: shadow justice minister expected to call for Sentencing Council to be scrapped & reveal ‘dossier’ of 30+ ‘activist’ judges who have volunteered for groups supporting refugees or posted supportive messages on social media. thejusticegap.com/bonkers-and-...
The CCRC has sent the case of Clive Freeman back to the Court of Appeal. Freeman has served 37 years for crimes he insists he did not commit. In 1989, he was convicted of arson and the murder of Alexander Hardie after Hardie was found dead in his flat thejusticegap.com/ccrc-refers-...
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The CCRC has sent the case of Clive Freeman back to the Court of Appeal. Freeman has served 37 years for crimes he insists he did not commit. In 1989, he was convicted of arson and the murder of Alexander Hardie after Hardie was found dead in his flat thejusticegap.com/ccrc-refers-...
'If they thought they could get away with it again, they would’: Justin Plummer, free after 28yrs in prison, on having his conviction overturned in 2021, only to be reconvicted on word of a schizophrenic police informant cellmate & having that overturned: thejusticegap.com/justin-plumm...
September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
'If they thought they could get away with it again, they would’: Justin Plummer, free after 28yrs in prison, on having his conviction overturned in 2021, only to be reconvicted on word of a schizophrenic police informant cellmate & having that overturned: thejusticegap.com/justin-plumm...
CCRC uses 'safety valve' power for first time to refer without fresh evidence: Miscarriage watchdog sends Ben Fields case back to the Court of Appeal for the first time in 30 years invoking section 13(2). Is this a sign of a newly energised CCRC? thejusticegap.com/ccrc-uses-sa...
September 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
CCRC uses 'safety valve' power for first time to refer without fresh evidence: Miscarriage watchdog sends Ben Fields case back to the Court of Appeal for the first time in 30 years invoking section 13(2). Is this a sign of a newly energised CCRC? thejusticegap.com/ccrc-uses-sa...
Joint enterprise ‘shattering lives through overreaching prosecutions’: @we-are-appeal.bsky.social's
Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...
Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...
July 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Joint enterprise ‘shattering lives through overreaching prosecutions’: @we-are-appeal.bsky.social's
Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...
Nisha Waller & Tehreem Sultan on new research into 17 murder trials at the Old Bailey, 55 defendants including 33 secondary parties thejusticegap.com/joint-enterp...
Prisons have ‘ceded airspace’ to crime gangs’ drones: ‘Overwhelming’ flood of drugs is ‘destablising’ prisons, says Chief Inspector of Prisons’ - in a category C prison a staggering 59% of prisoners tested positive for drugs. Pic Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/prisons-have...
July 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Prisons have ‘ceded airspace’ to crime gangs’ drones: ‘Overwhelming’ flood of drugs is ‘destablising’ prisons, says Chief Inspector of Prisons’ - in a category C prison a staggering 59% of prisoners tested positive for drugs. Pic Andy Aitchison thejusticegap.com/prisons-have...
'Science belongs in the hands of scientists, not the police': Report on launch of Westminster Commission on Forensic Science. 'If we want to avoid miscarriages of justice, we need to have strong forensic sector - not one teetering on the brink.' thejusticegap.com/science-belong
June 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Science belongs in the hands of scientists, not the police': Report on launch of Westminster Commission on Forensic Science. 'If we want to avoid miscarriages of justice, we need to have strong forensic sector - not one teetering on the brink.' thejusticegap.com/science-belong
'What we want is for them [the MoJ] to appreciate how low the organisation has sunk and to revive it': @hammersmithandy.bsky.social talks to the JusticeGap about the 'hollowing out' of the CCRC - 'an organisation that continually fails to learn from its mistakes' thejusticegap.com/andy-slaught...
June 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'What we want is for them [the MoJ] to appreciate how low the organisation has sunk and to revive it': @hammersmithandy.bsky.social talks to the JusticeGap about the 'hollowing out' of the CCRC - 'an organisation that continually fails to learn from its mistakes' thejusticegap.com/andy-slaught...
CCRC ‘unravelling quickly’ as chair accused of misleading MPs: 'There will be more Malkinsons and more cases of that hideous nature unless the Government really grab hold of it and take charge,’ says Lord Garnier in House of Lords debate thejusticegap.com/ccrc-unravel...
May 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
CCRC ‘unravelling quickly’ as chair accused of misleading MPs: 'There will be more Malkinsons and more cases of that hideous nature unless the Government really grab hold of it and take charge,’ says Lord Garnier in House of Lords debate thejusticegap.com/ccrc-unravel...
'Crime is prism thru which we see society, its anxieties & phobias': Sad to hear of the death of Duncan Campbell. We spoke to him in 2017, wise & hilarious about 'poisonous relationship' btn cops & reporters 'lubricated by booze & sealed thru backhanders’: thejusticegap.com/14672/
May 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
'Crime is prism thru which we see society, its anxieties & phobias': Sad to hear of the death of Duncan Campbell. We spoke to him in 2017, wise & hilarious about 'poisonous relationship' btn cops & reporters 'lubricated by booze & sealed thru backhanders’: thejusticegap.com/14672/
Peter Sullivan conviction overturned after 38 yrs: exoneration has been called the longest miscarriage of justice in British justice, comes 16 yrs after first applied to CCRC. The watchdog expresses 'regret' for not having referred case first time around thejusticegap.com/peter-sulliv...
May 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Peter Sullivan conviction overturned after 38 yrs: exoneration has been called the longest miscarriage of justice in British justice, comes 16 yrs after first applied to CCRC. The watchdog expresses 'regret' for not having referred case first time around thejusticegap.com/peter-sulliv...
Former CCRC chair calls Law Commission proposal to scrap statutory test ‘distraction’. Prof Graham Zellick on the bigger problem of an ‘uneven' Court of Appeal with 'limited experience' of criminal law' & the 'catastrophic loss of confidence' in watchdog.
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May 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Former CCRC chair calls Law Commission proposal to scrap statutory test ‘distraction’. Prof Graham Zellick on the bigger problem of an ‘uneven' Court of Appeal with 'limited experience' of criminal law' & the 'catastrophic loss of confidence' in watchdog.
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‘The CCRC is in a state of complete collapse’: Former solicitor general Edward Garnier calls for government get a 'grip' of failing miscarriage watchdog. Retired appeal judge Baroness Butler Sloss calls for 'entire commission' to be 'set aside' thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...
May 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
‘The CCRC is in a state of complete collapse’: Former solicitor general Edward Garnier calls for government get a 'grip' of failing miscarriage watchdog. Retired appeal judge Baroness Butler Sloss calls for 'entire commission' to be 'set aside' thejusticegap.com/the-ccrc-is-...
Colin Norris appeal starts today: ‘If jury had known the facts as they stand, it’s inconceivable a guilty verdict would have been returned,' says campaign chair Paul May. Jenny Evans reports on another possible victim of unreliable scientific evidence thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...
May 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Colin Norris appeal starts today: ‘If jury had known the facts as they stand, it’s inconceivable a guilty verdict would have been returned,' says campaign chair Paul May. Jenny Evans reports on another possible victim of unreliable scientific evidence thejusticegap.com/colin-norris...
What next for Oliver Campbell? Sam Dulieu reports on this week's @legalactiongroup.bsky.social / @justicegap.bsky.social Rough Justice event featuring Oliver's legal team and the man himself on one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice www.thejusticegap.com/rough-justic...
May 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What next for Oliver Campbell? Sam Dulieu reports on this week's @legalactiongroup.bsky.social / @justicegap.bsky.social Rough Justice event featuring Oliver's legal team and the man himself on one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice www.thejusticegap.com/rough-justic...
'Who's actually running the organisation?'
Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...
Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...
May 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
'Who's actually running the organisation?'
Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...
Andy Slaughter MP on the 'hole at the heart' of the miscarriage of justice watchdog. But CCRC chief exec tells Justice Commitee it's business as usual thejusticegap.com/ccrc-the-onl...
‘Nurses are being gagged. They are too frightened to speak out’: 400 plus healthcare professionals including 200 nurses call on unions to demand an independent review into the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby thejusticegap.com/nurses-are-b...
April 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
‘Nurses are being gagged. They are too frightened to speak out’: 400 plus healthcare professionals including 200 nurses call on unions to demand an independent review into the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby thejusticegap.com/nurses-are-b...
The early release of prisoners is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms, as prisons reached 99% capacity this month www.thejusticegap.com/early-releas...
March 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The early release of prisoners is set to become part of the UK government’s prisons reforms, as prisons reached 99% capacity this month www.thejusticegap.com/early-releas...
HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1,500 prison places, as critics continue to cite an end to sentence inflation as the solution to the capacity crisis www.thejusticegap.com/government-u...
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
HMP Millsike has opened as the UK’s first ‘green prison,’ creating some 1,500 prison places, as critics continue to cite an end to sentence inflation as the solution to the capacity crisis www.thejusticegap.com/government-u...
The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial, asserting that ‘only sustained investment' will ensure victims and defendants get justice that is both timely and fair’ www.thejusticegap.com/law-society-...
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The Law Society has criticised plans to create ‘intermediate courts’ to address the backlog of criminal cases awaiting trial, asserting that ‘only sustained investment' will ensure victims and defendants get justice that is both timely and fair’ www.thejusticegap.com/law-society-...
The probation service has ‘too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases’ which could undermine the department’s ability to protect the public according to a new review in the wake of a continued crisis in prisons www.thejusticegap.com/under-resour...
March 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The probation service has ‘too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases’ which could undermine the department’s ability to protect the public according to a new review in the wake of a continued crisis in prisons www.thejusticegap.com/under-resour...
The prisons inspectorate has reported that prison officers largely respond poorly to applications for basic requests, leaving prisoners feeling ‘frustrated’ and disrespected www.thejusticegap.com/prisons-watc...
March 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The prisons inspectorate has reported that prison officers largely respond poorly to applications for basic requests, leaving prisoners feeling ‘frustrated’ and disrespected www.thejusticegap.com/prisons-watc...
Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful www.thejusticegap.com/police-pay-c...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Thames Valley Police have agreed to pay compensation to an anti-monarchist protestor, accepting that his 2022 arrest was unlawful www.thejusticegap.com/police-pay-c...