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.
Those of you who follow this site, or our social media, will be aware of our friend Jimmy Boyle. Some will know something of his story. Convicted and imprisoned as the result of false and malicious allegations, Jimmy was eventually to secure what passes for justice. But not until the system had extracted from him […]
The decision by the coroner at the Birmingham bombings inquest to exclude from scrutiny the very matters that might have allowed the victims’ families some degree of closure – a decision that also denied justice to Paddy Hill and the other unwitting victims of the atrocity – rendered that exercise effectively pointless and, depending on […]
For miscarriage of justice victims looking to overturn their wrongful convictions, one of the most significant challenges they encounter is the refusal of police and Crown to allow access to crucial evidence that could fatally undermine the case against them. From The Guardian online yesterday (10 July), we reproduce an interesting article that highlights this […]