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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A roll-call of miscarriages of justice representing ‘nearly 100 years of people’s lives lost to prison’ was read out at the launch of a three-year inquiry exposing forensic science failures. Professor ...

A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police ...