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  In recent articles published on this website we have voiced our deep concern at the lack, in our everyday reality, of a robust and meaningful presumption of innocence.   Founded in the bitter life experience of those whom we support, our belief is that this supposed first principle of our criminal justice system is a […]

What, exactly, is the presumption of innocence?   How can we claim it as a fundamental of our justice system when our courts not only don’t recognise innocence as a concept, but they are powerless to find it, or to declare it? “Innocent” isn’t one of the options offered to the finders of fact in our […]