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- Transcript of proceedings, witnesses' statements, chairman's notebooks, etc arising from the Inquiry between 1975 to 1977 by Sir Henry Fisher, on the appointment of the Home Secretary and the Attorney General, into the circumstances leading to the trial of certain persons in 1972 on charges arising out of the death in that year of Maxwell Confait in a fire at Lewisham.
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Dec 14, 1977 · This document contains the following information: Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons dated Dec. 12, 1977 for report of an inquiry into the death of Maxwell Confait and the...
Nov 21, 2019 · Following a report by the former High Court Judge, Sir Henry Fisher, the government set up the Royal Commission of Criminal Procedure which ultimately led to, not only PACE, but the setting up of the Crown Prosecution Service under the Prosecution of Offenders Act 1985.
The report concerned not probabilities but vague possibilities. What happened remains a mystery. There were two broad possibilities: first, that the boys' confessions were suggested by the police, and, second, that the confessions 1808 were true.
In his report, Fisher rejected the defendants' accusations of police brutality and stated that two of the defendants in the Confait murder were "guilty on balance of probability" even though they had been exonerated from criminal guilt. [1]
Sep 16, 2024 · On 28 November 1975 Sir Henry Fisher, a former High Court Judge, was appointed by the Home Secretary and the Attorney General to inquire into the circumstances leading to the trial of Ronald...
- 1972-1977
- HO 253
- The National Archives, Kew
The report examines in detail the events leading to the trial. Sir Henry Fisher makes a number of criticisms of the conduct of the police investigation, including the interviewing of the youths in the absence of their parents and certain specific breaches of the Judges' Rules.
THE FISHER REPORT ON THE CONFAIT CASE: FOUR ISSUES. THE Fisher Report on the Confait Case 1 highlights four significant issues for policy and theory in the administration of justice: the production and presentation of evidence, the nature and functions of inquiries, the question of civil rights in the police station, and.
