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January 30 2020

On This Day 2019…

On this day, 30 January 2019, the UK Supreme Court issued its judgement in the case of Sam Hallam and Victor Nealon. The question before the court was whether the Ministry of Justice had acted unlawfully in denying Sam and Victor compensation for years of wrongful imprisonment. It is, after all, disputed by no-one that […]

January 28 2020

“Has anyone at the CCRC got the time, please?” – Justice Gap

Comment, News

From The Justice Gap we reproduce this interesting article, with its remarakable revelation that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (“CCRC”), the body tasked to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, does not record the time it spends on cases: I was astonished to learn earlier this week that the CCRC […]