The newly released BBC documentary Killer Couple: Love on Trial has remained up top of trending programmes on iPlayer. Are these clicks about the viewers’ interest in questions of justice, or simply ...

Leading experts have spoken to the Justice Gap about concerns over the safety of the conviction of Lucy Letby. Media restrictions pending a second trial of the former neonatal nurse prevented ...

An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

Maxwell Confait, a male prostitute known as Michelle, was throttled and his body discovered in a burnt-out flat in Catford, South London in 1972. Three innocent boys were jailed for his murder after ...

The lawyer who represented the Birmingham Six told a packed meeting in parliament that history had repeated itself with the wrongful conviction of four young Muslim men in 2017. Gareth Peirce was ...

A fresh investigation into the case of Jeremy Bamber, convicted of murdering his family in 1985, has revealed ‘significant evidence’ and police failings that may indicate he was wrongly convicted. A ...

Christine Keeler‘s 1963 conviction for perjury was the ‘ultimate in slut-shaming’ and a posthumous exoneration would be an opportunity to acknowledge historic discrimination against women in the ...

Last month the legal charity APPEAL launched a groundbreaking report – Joint Enterprise on Trial. Dr Nisha Waller and Tehreem Sultan observed 17 murder and attempted murder trials at the Old Bailey — ...

Oliver Campbell’s legal team have criticised an ‘increasingly conservative’ Court of Appeal after the court contemplated a retrial more than a third of a century after his wrongful conviction. The ...

Attempts by the Court of Appeal to ‘fetter’ the miscarriage of justice watchdog were ‘not just improper but unconstitutional’, according to the government’s independent law reform body which has ...

A joint response to the government’s inquiry into tackling drugs in prisons has underlined the harms in current drugs policy, including the use of mandatory testing. It also highlights that despite ...

The problem with the criminal appeal system’s failure to get to grips with miscarriages of justice was not the watchdog but the court of appeal which was ‘constitutionally wrong’, argued a leading ...