The country’s miscarriage of justice watchdog is investigating at least 175 cases which saw offenders, including children and young people, handed abolished indefinite jail terms ... Now scores of cases ...
A judge has said “every effort should be made” to progress matters in an application by a man who is attempting to have his wrongful conviction more than 45 years ago for the Sallins train robbery declared a miscarriage of justice.
Wrongly convicted people no longer face being pushed over the savings limit for means-tested support because of the amount they received in payouts ... .
) Miscarriage of justice victims will no longer have their compensation counted when applying for benefits ... Miscarriages of justice steal irreplaceable time and devastate lives ... miscarriage of justice.
They claimed the judge “ran roughshod” over and “shut down” defence evidence, resulting in a substantial miscarriage of justice ... court and there was a significant miscarriage of justice,” he said.
Peter Sullivan, 68, has been described as the victim of Britain's longest-running miscarriage of justice, having been jailed in 1987 for the brutal murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall in Birkenhead.
"There is nothing inherently wrong with a new administration evaluating the actions of the old, but if that evaluation is resulting in perverse miscarriages of justice — as it is in Hankison’s case — ...
He asserted that the miscarriages of justice were “due to evil bureaucratic practices,” and harshly denounced the systemic nature of corruption among government officials ... “To be frank, my heart feels sort of empty.”.
LUCY Letby’s case may be a miscarriage of justice with “gaps in evidence” left unexplained, a former coroner’s officer has claimed ... a miscarriage of justice”.
Currently, the maximum amount of compensation payable under the miscarriage of justice system in England and Wales is £1 million for 10 or more years imprisonment or £500,000 for up to 10 years.