House of Lords committee echoes Westminster Commission’s calls for urgent forensics reform
A report released by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee today warns the government to urgently resolve a ‘shocking abdication of responsibility’ for forensic science, which they say will lead to future miscarriages of justice. Their inquiry follows hot on the heels of the landmark report released in June 2025 by the Westminster […]
All-Party Parliamentary Group hears from three miscarriage of justice victims on ‘unconscionable cruelty’ of lack of compensation
On 9 February MPs, peers, campaigners, and interested members of the public attended a meeting in parliament to hear from three men who spent a total of 77 years in prison for murders they did not commit. All have had their convictions overturned in the last two years, and none of the men have received […]
New podcast explores Oliver Campbell’s wrongful conviction and the fight to clear his name
Oliver Campbell spent 30 years trying to clear his name after being wrongly convicted of murder. He spent more than a decade in seven different prisons for a crime he didn’t commit. In this new podcast created by the Manchester Innocence Project, you’ll hear how Oliver suffered a brain injury when he was a baby – which […]
APPG event highlights use and misuse of expert evidence in the criminal justice system
On Monday 27 October the Future Justice Project hosted a public meeting on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice with a fantastic guest panel of speakers, chaired by co-chair of the APPG, Lord Edward Garnier. The panel explored the use of expert evidence in criminal trials, covering the misuse of statistics […]
All-Party Parliamentary Group hosts launch of new report into applicant experiences of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Two researchers asked people, both in prison and out, about their experiences of trying to overturn their convictions. The findings? Swathes of people unable to access any legal representation to support their application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission; those who could afford it draining savings, re-mortgaging houses and cashing in pensions to pay for […]
Forensic science in England and Wales is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ according to new Westminster inquiry into forensics and miscarriages of justice
A three-year inquiry set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice into forensics has concluded that the sector is in a ‘graveyard spiral’ leading to poor police investigations, increasing unsolved crimes and more wrongful convictions. The Westminster Commission on Forensic Science, chaired by Professor Angela Gallop and Professor Lady Sue Black, publishes […]
50 years since the wrongful conviction of the Birmingham Six – APPG event in Parliament
On Wednesday 5th March the APPG on miscarriages of justice hosted an event in parliament event exploring the legacy of a series of landmark wrongful convictions – the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven. We were joined by panellists including Patrick Maguire who was 13 years old when he was arrested as one of […]
Oliver Campbell successfully appeals murder conviction after 34-year fight for justice
Last week, after a more than three decade fight for justice, Oliver Campbell successfully appealed a wrongful conviction for murder. Wrongfully imprisoned in 1991 for murdering a shopkeeper in East London, Campbell spent 11 years in prison. The conviction followed ‘dangerous’ police interview tactics – interviewed 14 times he admitted to the shooting during the […]
PROOF 6: How a watchdog lost its bite
From the latest edition of PROOF magazine. To buy your copy of PROOF 6 ‘The Other Ones’, visit thejusticegap.com. At the end of 2023, the Future Justice Project hosted a meeting of leading figures from the miscarriage of justice world – some had campaigned for the radical reform that led to the establishment of the […]
Case to watch: Oliver Campbell
The final stage of Oliver Campbell’s appeal against his wrongful murder conviction will be heard next week. He lost his first appeal, had a second application for appeal turned down by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, but subsequently persuaded the CCRC he did have grounds for appeal. This appeal commenced in March, in which experts […]
