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 ...

A review of sentencing following a growing crisis in prisons has found the sharp increase in the prison population has been due to a ‘tough on crime’ narrative by successive governments, based on ...

A former police officer claiming to be wrongly convicted of an assault that took place at a police station has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission of ‘delaying action for years’ despite a ...

Peter is in his late fifties. He came to the UK about 20 years ago from Nigeria and made several attempts to obtain legal status, all of which failed. Without this, he was not allowed to work and was ...