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The Law Commission has laid out reforms for criminal appeals weeks after Helen Pitcher, chair of the Criminal Cases Review ...
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has come under fire for not publicly acknowledging the Government’s bid to remove its boss over the litany of failings in the Andrew Malkinson case.
Mr McDevitt's four further convictions now referred to the Court of Appeal include two counts of wounding with intent, ...
The current criminal-leave application process is unfair and must be reformed, a group of appellate defenders write in ...
Lucy Letby’s lawyers are to meet with the Criminal Cases Review Commission to present 11 new strands of evidence they say undermine the nurse’s conviction. Today Letby’s defence team wrote ...
Mark McDonald said he would hand over the full findings of a panel of experts to the Criminal Cases Review Commission The barrister representing convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby has said ...
In October 2024 the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred Mr McDevitt's murder conviction to Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal following concerns about the credibility of police witnesses.