2 Miscarriage of justice in the UK
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Crisis in Our Justice System
Whenever a miscarriage of justice hits the headlines, it is tempting to dismiss it as an anomaly – a minor hiccup in an otherwise healthy judicial system. Yet the cases of injustice that feature in this book reveal that they are not just minor hiccups, but symptoms of a chronic illness plaguing the British legal system.
Massive underfunding, catastrophic failures in policing and shoddy legal representation have all contributed to a deepening crisis – one that the watchdog set up for the very purpose of investigating miscarriages of justice has done precious little to remedy. Indeed, little has changed since the ‘bad old days’ of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six.
Award winning journalist Jon Robins lifts the lid on Britain’s legal scandals and exposes the disturbing complacency that has led to many innocent people being deemed guilty, either in the eyes of the law or in the court of public opinion.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Crisis in Our Justice System
Op de foto op pagina 3 in het document op bovenstaande link zien we Liam Allan speaking at the Meeting on 25/6/18
Something had gone seriously wrong
A recent BBC survey revealed that 97% of criminal defence lawyers had encountered disclosure failures in the last 12 months.
Dit is de eerste zin in het document in bovenstaande link. Het artikel gaat verder met:
Since the botched prosecution of Liam Allan collapsed before Christmas, the Director of Public Prosecution’s disclosure nightmare seems to be getting worse by the week.The case against the 22-year-old criminology student was dropped three days into the trial at Croydon Crown Court when police were forced to disclose a wealth of digital evidence comprising some 40,000 messages which revealed, amongst other things, that the alleged victim had pestered the young man for ‘casual sex’
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