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In this section of our website we offer an occasional insight into our views, and comment, on the issues that we meet in our work. Whether you agree or disagree with us, we’d be pleased to hear your views on the matters discussed. Get in touch with us through our “contact” page.

June 4 2020

Police station lawyers failing to challenge detention

The following article by Julia Wynn, published today (4 June) on The Justice Gap website, is an interesting read. It draws attention to the failure, by defence agents attending police station interviews, to challenge the excessive use by police of detention. And it recognises this as another manifestation of the consequences of chronic underfunding of […]

June 4 2020

What it’s like to be wrongly convicted of murder: Michael O’Brien, the Cardiff Newsagent Three, and what happened next

Comment, Interview, News

From the Wales Online website we reproduce this fascinating article about our friend, Michael O’Brien, and his journey to, and through, his appalling miscarriage of justice. Michael is a courageous and inspiring man. His story is compelling reading: On the afternoon of July 20 1988, a jury at Cardiff Crown Court delivered guilty verdicts on […]