Jon Robins
Founder and Editor at The Justice Gap
Freelance Author at Freelance
Edited by @JonRobins10. University reporter scheme: Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow & UCL. Support the JG, buy Proof https://t.co/3r5RacFs9Y
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2 weeks ago |
bylinetimes.com | Jon Robins
Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. To support its work, subscribe to the monthly Byline Times print edition, packed with exclusive investigations, news, and analysis. In the recent history of miscarriages of justice, the case of Danny Major is uniquely shocking.
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3 weeks ago |
thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins
A former police officer who claims to have been wrongly convicted has called an almost decade-long delay by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in making a decision to send his case back to the Court of Appeal ’farcical’ and ‘hugely damaging’. The watchdog has today finally referred the case of Danny Major back to the Appeal judges despite an independent investigation by a neighbouring police force identifying the former officer as a ‘miscarriage of justice’ in 2015.
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1 month ago |
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jon Robins
MPs spoke out against the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’ miscarriage of justice compensation scheme which rejected more than nine out of 10 applications. In a Westminster Hall debate earlier this week, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake highlighted the ‘devastating’ impact of changes introduced by the Coalition government in 2014 which has restricted pay-outs to those who could prove their innocence ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’. It was revealed that the scheme had a ‘more than 93% rejection rate’.
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1 month ago |
thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins
MPs spoke out against the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’ miscarriage of justice compensation scheme which rejected more than nine out of 10 applications. In a Westminster Hall debate earlier this week, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake highlighted the ‘devastating’ impact of changes introduced by the Coalition government in 2014 which has restricted pay-outs to those who could prove their innocence ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’. It was revealed that the scheme had a ‘more than 93% rejection rate’.
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1 month ago |
thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins
There have been multiple calls for a halt in the inquiry into the alleged murders of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital including from the forming nursing director at the trust where Lucy Letby worked. Lady Justice Thirlwall said that lawyers for the former hospital executives including chief exec Tony Chambers, medical director Ian Harvey, director of nursing Alison Kelly and HR director Sue Hodkinson had written to the secretary of state for health to seek a suspension of the inquiry.
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