Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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Editorial: A review ordered by Vera Baird should help the body tasked with identifying miscarriages of justice to rebuild itself.
17 July 2026
The psychologist whose report made Merseyside Police suspect Eddie Gilfoyle of murdering his pregnant wife now calls his own advice 'nonsense'.
3 July 2026
Brendan McConville’s solicitors have referred his case to the CCRC after a review confirmed the PSNI obtained their communications data ahead of his 2013 appeal.
21 October 2025
Brian Thornton on how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue, from disclosure failures to an overloaded CCRC.
5 March 2025
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
A law professor hopes an independent commission aimed at dealing with cases of wrongful conviction will stop cases like Alan Hall's taking decades to rectify.
19 August 2023
Clive Freeman is 79 and in his 35th year in prison for a murder he says never happened. Nine pathologists have since disputed the prosecution pathologist’s conclusion that Alexander Hardie was suffocated — and the CCRC has rejected four applications.
1 March 2023
Victoria's Court of Appeal has had 18 judgements overturned by the High Court in 14 years, making the case for a CCRC.
23 July 2020
One of Australia's most respected former detectives, Colin McLaren, breaks rank to explain why he no longer trusts the judicial system — and why Australia still has no criminal cases review commission.
13 June 2020
New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission opens for applications on 1 July 2020, leaving Australia the outlier with no equivalent body.
24 May 2020