Victims of miscarriages of justice will no longer lose access to means-tested benefits if they receive financial compensation ...

However, punishment for being homeless, using Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBI) is set to continue and to be widened with new Respect Orders introduced in the Crime and Policing Bill.

A senior judge has ordered high street banks including Barclays, Nat West and Lloyds to release information on secret ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has referred the murder convictions of two men eight years after it first received their ...

The Post Office Horizon scandal, which led to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in human history, caused 13 people ...

In choosing to foreground workload concerns over correcting wrongful convictions, the CBA risks legitimising a system that ...

Keir Starmer made a personal commitment yesterday to review the scandal of the lack of compensation and care for the victims ...

Joint enterprise – also known as secondary liability or complicity – has long been a contested area of criminal law in ...

Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

Charlie Taylor claimed that the police and prison service had effectively ‘ceded the airspace’ above two high security prisons to organised crime gangs delivering contraband by drones. He argued that ...

Surrey Police arrested some 46 people including four young people who were subsequently charged with the Guildford and Woolwich offences. They became known as the Guildford Four. Charged with murder ...

Leading statisticians have come out in support of a former nurse serving 30 years for murder in a final attempt to clear his name. The miscarriage of justice watchdog is expected to decide whether or ...