The case of Eddie Gilfoyle has featured extensively on the Justice Gap over the years – he spoke at the launch of my book Guilty Until Proven Innocent in 2017. He has always insisted that he was ...

A man who has served 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after ...

A former Lord Chancellor has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) of being responsible for delaying the ...

The Lib Dem peer Lord Marks of Henley said Kneller ‘demonstrated a complete lack of the required diligence’ over the botched ...

The government is asking legal aid lawyers to have their say over proposed funding increases in the sector. A consultation ...

Criminals who refuse to attend court to face sentencing remarks will be subject to sanctions under new legislation.

A former chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has called the Law Commission’s proposal to scrap its controversial statutory test for referrals ‘a distraction’ and argued that it is ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there were only a limited number of ways to mount an effective challenge to a conviction, especially once the Appeal Court had rejected any approach on traditional grounds ...

From the latest issue of PROOF magazine, Charles Thompson writes about the case of Jason Moore who has spent a decade in prison for a murder he insists he didn’t commit. Put away by questionable ...