Reaching a verdict: miscarriages of justice

For lawyers there are few more emotive matters than a miscarriage of justice. Small wonder then that the angst around the failures of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is much more than existential. Defence lawyers and campaigners for reform of the CCRC describe an organisation that is hamstrung by a body of legislation that increasingly assumes the guilt of any defendant; whose staff are inconsistent; and whose closeness to the Court of Appeal leads the CCRC to bring only predictable cases before it.

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