We are delighted to be associated with the Sheffield Students’ Union Miscarriages of Justice Awareness Society (MOJAS), fellow-combatants in the battle to raise awareness of the issues surrounding miscarriage of justice, and its consequences.
We invite you to visit the MOJAS website – HERE– and, if you’re a student in or around Sheffield, to get involved. You can join HERE.
We look forward to working with MOJAS in the months and years ahead.
The Herald today carries the following article, which takes a refreshingly informed look at the developing crisis in legal aid funding in Scotland. This isn’t about “fat cat” lawyers. This is about the conscious removal of access to justice for the vulnerable. It’s about the growing inequality of arms between prosecution and defence which […]
The following article, published on the website of The Justice Gap, examines alarming failures in the system for disclosure of forensic evidence. The issue is examined in the context of post-conviction disclosure of evidence required for appeal. The current system is described by Inside Justice, the charity headed up by journalist Louise Shorter, as an […]
The following article from the Herald, written by Dr Stuart Waiton, a criminology lecturer at the University of Abertay, Dundee, is well worth its repetition here. It provides a timely and interesting counterpoint to the apparently prevailing view, that rape complainers are being forced to resort to civil litigation by the failure of our criminal […]