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Legal Challenge Over Media Access Won
(Posted on 16/06/23)A man who has claimed he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice has won a legal challenge against the UK government’s restrictive policy on prisoners’ access to the media. Mark Alexander has campaigned for more than eight years to have the Ministry of Justice allow for an investigative journalist to interview him and publish a documentary podcast on his case. This week at the High Court, Mr Justice Andrew Baker issued guidance... Read more...
New CourtWatch London Project Launched
(Posted on 15/06/23)Transform Justice has announced the launch of a new courtwatching network called CourtWatch London. Courtwatching is where members of the public observe and document what really happens in the courtroom. By attending court hearings and writing down what they see, volunteer courtwatchers will become the eyes and ears of the community. Those behind the new project say the data gathered by these courtwatchers "will help... Read more...
Kathleen Folbigg 'worst miscarriage of justice' in Australian history
(Posted on 09/06/23)Kathleen Folbigg, who spent 20 years in prison for killing her four children, was pardoned earlier this week by a court in Australia. Her lawyers called it one of the worst miscarriages of justice in Australian history, after experts called the evidence which helped convict Folbigg in 2003, "demonstrably unreliable and misogynistic." New research from scientists based at the Australian National University found the children... Read more...
Mark Alexander takes Ministry of Justice to Court over Podcast Access
(Posted on 25/05/23)A prisoner who claims he was wrongly convicted of killing his father has brought a High Court challenge against the Government over a refusal to let him speak to a journalist about his case. Mark Alexander, then aged 22, received a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years after a jury found him guilty of murdering 70-year-old Samuel Alexander in September 2010. Alexander, currently being held at HMP Coldingley, Surrey, has “always... Read more...
Jeremy Bamber says police watchdog ruling could see him freed from jail
(Posted on 18/05/23)Jeremy Bamber, convicted of killing his family in 1985, believes a new police watchdog ruling could see him released from prison. The 62-year-old who has always maintained his innocence, claims he had nothing to do with the so-called White House Farm murders. He is serving a whole-life tariff for the murder of his adoptive parents Nevill and June Bamber, his adoptive sister Sheila Caffell, 28, and her six-year-old twins. All were shot at... Read more...
Support for judicial inquiry into wrongful convictions in South Wales Police area welcomed
(Posted on 11/05/23)Miscarriage of justice victim and campaigner, Michael O'Brien has welcomed the call for a judicial inquiry into a series of wrongful convictions that have occurred in the South Wales Police area since the 1980's. In recent days an Early Day Motion was been tabled in the House of Commons by Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts. Backed by Plaid’s other two MPs, Ben Lake and Hywel Williams, it reads: “That this House notes... Read more...
