The Justice Gap

The Justice Gap is a digital magazine focused on legal matters and the disparities within the justice system. Jon Robins serves as the editor. Notable writers and commentators, who specialize in justice-related topics, have contributed to both The Justice Gap and our print publication, Proof.

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Danny Major: ‘My name could have been cleared a decade ago’

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.
HMP Deerbolt ‘over-restrictive’ and ‘unsafe’ inspection finds

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Rebecca Smith

Deerbolt prison and Young Offenders Institute has been found to be ‘not safe enough’ by the prisons watchdog. During its latest inspection of the prison, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons found extensive drug use, including one incident where 40 people collapsed after a bad batch of drugs entered the prison. Deerbolt prison holds 474 prisoners, with one third under the age of 25.
MPs speak out against ‘cruel’ and ‘inhuman’ miscarriage of justice compensation scheme

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’.
Former hospital bosses call for halt to Letby inquiry

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.
Justice system faces ‘total gridlock’ in 2026

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

The justice system was facing ‘total gridlock’ next year as Labour inherited ‘completely unrealistic’ plans to tackle prison capacity. This was the bleak assessment offered by the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a new report on prison capacity published this morning. The PAC reports that, despite Keir Starmer’s early release scheme, the Ministry of Justice forecasts prisons will run out of capacity by early 2026.
CPS consider challenging appeal of man who has been in prison for 38 years

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

The Crown Prosecution Service has been given a month to decide whether it will challenge the appeal of a man who has been in prison since 1987 against his murder conviction. If successful, Peter Sullivan could be the longest serving victim of a miscarriage of justice. Diane Sindall was found dead in August 1986 after leaving her place of work in Bebington, Merseyside. The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred his case to the Court of Appeal on the basis of new DNA evidence last November.
‘No accountability’: 50 years after the Birmingham Six

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

Lawyers who represented the men and women wrongly convicted of the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings this week warned about a return to ‘the bad old days’, called for ‘a complete reconstruction’ of the miscarriage of justice watchdog and criticised a ‘deeply conservative’ Court of Appeal.
Ruth Ellis and The British Establishment’s Buddhist Attack Dog Lawyer

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

With a new drama about Ruth Ellis’s trial and execution for murder seventy years ago coming to television, Neil Root looks at how in just five years the leading lawyer Christmas Humphreys, also Britain’s foremost Buddhist, prosecuted and secured the death penalty on Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley and then Ellis, three of the greatest miscarriages of justice of the twentieth century.
Compensation should not be down to ‘public pressure and political fallout’

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

The lawyer of a man who spent 17 years wrongly imprisoned and received just £46 from the state has called on the Lord Chancellor to urgently reform compensation arrangements for the victims of miscarriages of justice following a decision to make an interim ‘six figure’ payment to Andrew Malkinson. The Justice Gap has featured the case of Victor Nealon over the years – including this interview with him where he talks of how he almost ended up on the streets after having his conviction overturned.
‘Not just improper but unconstitutional’: Law Commission on judicial attempts to ‘fetter’ CCRC

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Jon Robins

Attempts by the Court of Appeal to ‘fetter’ the miscarriage of justice watchdog were ‘not just improper but unconstitutional’, according to the government’s independent law reform body which has highlighted concerns about the independence of the criminal appeals process.