Posts by Appeal Admin
Secret Criminal Trials In Urgent Need Of Reform
Secret Criminal Trials In Urgent Need Of Reform What’s more important – bureaucratic efficiency or fairness and justice? Policies from the British government over the last 10 years would strongly suggest the former. One incarnation of this which is in the news at the moment is the single justice procedure. Many are unaware that a large…
Read MoreReport Launch: Cross-party group reveals results of wrongful conviction watchdog inquiry
Report Launch: Cross-party group reveals results of wrongful conviction watchdog inquiry In the Interests of Justice: A Report into the Criminal Cases Review Commission by the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice The Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice launched its report into the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on 5th March.…
Read MoreA Childhood Interrupted
A Childhood Interuppted Issy Dougherty /// 2019 Part 1 I remember being around 6 years old when my mother introduced me to K. We were in a restaurant in Liverpool and we moved in to his house the next day. A few months later he took me to Disneyland. My mother couldn’t go because she…
Read MoreThe Gift of Time
A Gift of Time Lilly Lewis /// 2019 A Story of Transformation Chapter 1 – “Where’s Your Mama Gone?” My name is Lilly and I’ve just finished my 26th month in prison. I’ve got 13 months left to serve on a 7-year sentence for my part in conspiracy to defraud.Sitting in my cell I have…
Read More‘She-Devils’: The anatomy of female wrongful convictions
‘She-Devils’ The anatomy of female wrongful convictions Naima Sakande /// 8 March 2019 On International Women’s Day, Women’s Justice Advocate Naima Sakande explores why it is that women are convicted of crimes they did not commit. I sat across from Cookie in her cramped kitchen, balancing my laptop on my knees and trying to angle…
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