Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

INTERVIEW: A new series of BBC 2’s true crime documentary Conviction begins tonight following the work of Inside Justice in their re-examination of the case of Glyn Razzell. The legal charity’s ...

A particular challenge for investigating and prosecuting reported sexual offences is the absence of forensic incriminating evidence. This is particularly so in non-recent cases reported weeks, months, ...

An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

In 2017, four men were jailed for life for planning a terrorist attack after being caught in an undercover police operation. Their lawyers insist that their case continues to raise troubling questions ...

Does anyone here remember Clive Ponting? In my mind’s eye, I see him emerging into a media scrum outside the Old Bailey, his breath hanging on the chilly air. He is wearing a raincoat, even though it ...

Allegations of sexual abuse by the former BBC entertainer, Jimmy Savile emerged in a television documentary shown a year after his death in 2011, and provided a massive impetus for a sea change in ...

INTERVIEW: Parents are being left defenceless against unfounded allegations of abuse, reckons Dr Waney Squier, the leading shaken syndrome sceptic currently barred from giving evidence in our courts.

But make sure you are not a run- of-the-mill nurse. You need to stand out from the crowd in one way or another – for instance, by being an unashamedly out gay man (Colin Norris – see the Justice Gap ...