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Magazine about law and justice & the difference between the two. Editors: Jon Robins & Sam Dulieu. Support us, buy PROOF: http://www.thejusticegap.com/shop/
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‘I lost my faith in the justice system. Today, it’s been restored by the Supreme Court’: Supreme Court overturns convictions of city bankers Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo. Report and pix here: thejusticegap.com/todays-a-happy…
Why do false confessions happen – and how to guard against them: Alison Beck, the psychologist Alison Beck who gave critical evidence before the Court of Appeal in the Oliver Campbell case, on how the system failed a highly vulnerable man thejusticegap.com/why-do-false-c…
Justin Plummer case is in the Court of Appeal today:
Justin Plummer sleeps on the floor of his cell protesting his innocence of a 1997 murder. His conviction was overturned 4yrs ago - only to be reconvicted after prosecution relied on a 'confession' to a cell mate who happened to be a police informant. @JonRobins10 for @unherd
‘I believe in fighting for what is right’: Julie Major talks to @Onejen about her fight for justice for Mark 'Ozzy' Osbourne - who was in prison for GBH when he was convicted of a murder over a drugs dispute. thejusticegap.com/julie-major-i-…
In another sign of crisis at CCRC, no. of cases stuck for more >2yrs at CCRC tops a hundred for first time. Dame Vera Baird talks of ‘massive loss of confidence’ as a result of mishandling of Malkinson & that it might have missed ‘other problematic cases’ thejusticegap.com/growing-backlo…
Justice at Last: Errol Campbell—framed by corrupt & racist Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell—has had his conviction posthumously quashed by the Court of Appeal after almost 50 years. He was represented by @MattFoot2 📖 Read more: shorturl.at/XbS4P 📸 Photo credit: Jess Hurd, 2025
Urgent Notification for Pentonville to @ShabanaMahmood 👉130 illegally held after release day and 10 let out early in the last 6 months 👉new arrivals with no pillows, bedding or cutlery 👉44% men said they were frightened 👉22 hour bang up for most men 👉3 suicides in 2025
Final ‘Stockwell Six’ conviction overturned as total convictions from corrupt DS Ridgewell reaches 13: Ronald de Souza convicted in 1972 and Errol Campbell in 1977 - both fitted up by a corrupt and racist office Derek Ridgewell thejusticegap.com/final-wrongful…
Appeal judges to hear 12th appeal of wrongful conviction relating to the racist British Transport Police officer DS Derek Ridgewell. Errol Campbell will have his cases posthumously heard – nearly half a century after he was imprisoned thejusticegap.com/appeal-judges-…
Andrew Malkinson calls decision by MoJ to lift compensation cap payable to victims of a miscarriage of justice to just £1.3m ‘insulting’. ‘The state stole years of my life, yet wants to arbitrarily limit the compensation I receive.' Pic: @otium_Catulle thejusticegap.com/insulting-moj-…
Cutting jury trials will 'inevitably' increase miscarriages of justice: 'Reforms sold as urgent fixes to a clogged system, tear up principles going back to the Magna Carta of being tried ‘by your peers’ and risk systematic injustice,' says @we_are_APPEAL thejusticegap.com/cutting-jury-t…
