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Jul 18, 2023 · The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) received 1,424 applications between April 1 2022 and March 31 2023 from people wanting their conviction or sentence to be reviewed – an increase of 226...
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Convictions overturned after referral by the CCRC: Arson, Assault with intention to rob, Attempted robbery, Dishonestly making a false representation, Encouraging or assisting offences, False Accounting, False imprisonment, Manslaughter, Murder, Possession of a false passport, Theft, Unlawfully having an offensive weapon, Wounding with intent to ca...
Post Office
During 2021/22, the courts quashed 47 convictions against Post Office workers – adding to more convictions that were overturned last year. This constituting the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history. The convictions related to a variety of offences that were linked to theft and false accounting. The Court accepted that the original prosecutions were founded on the basis that financial information produced by the Horizon computer system was reliable. However, new evidence o...
Stockwell Six
The CCRC has continued its investigations into the historical racist and corrupt practices of former Detective Sergeant Derek Ridgewell of the British Transport Police (BTP) – who fabricated evidence that led to convictions that have lasted long after his death in 1982. After himself being imprisoned for conspiracy to rob, Ridgewell admitted that he had been corrupt while working for BTP. CCRC investigations have determined that Ridgewell would arrest and fabricate confessions from predominan...
Thomas ‘Brian’ Williams – posthumous acquittal
The Shrewsbury 24 were trade union members who were charged with intimidation against non-unionised colleagues following the 1972 building workers’ strike. At trials, 22 of the 24 men were convicted. Following CCRC referral, the Court of Appeal had previously quashed 14 of the convictions on grounds relating to the destruction of witness statements and a failure to disclose this fact. Mr Williams died in 2013, and in September 2021 his daughter-in-law asked the CCRC to posthumously review his...
The CCRC is an independent body set up under the Criminal Appeal Act 1995. It is responsible for independently reviewing suspected and alleged miscarriages of criminal justice in England, Wales and...There are currently 11 Commissioners who bring to the CCRC considerable experience from a wide variety of backgrounds. Commissioners are appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the Prime...The CCRC considers whether, as a result of new evidence or argument, there is a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld were a reference to be made. New evidence or argument is arg...The target was revised in April 2022 as the 36 week target was consistently achieved in 2021/22, with a number of long running cases closed during the year. Long-running cases. We count a case as...
Apr 23, 2021 · Judges have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice. They were convicted of stealing money, with some imprisoned, after the Post...
The past fifty years have been marked by appalling miscarriages of justice – from the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six to the cases of Victor Nealon and Sam Hallam.
It currently contains details of 346 cases, classified according to the cause of the miscarriage of justice, the offence involved and the relevant jurisdiction.
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Apr 13, 2021 · When that overall lack of resource for justice is combined with covid and its dreadful impact in delays in the courts of justice, we know that the justice system has been going through a tough time, and there has been an impact with miscarriages of justice in particular.
