The Criminal Cases Review Commission Hope for the Innocent?
by Naughton, MichaelFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-12-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This book focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body- the Criminal Cases Review Commission- to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up following notorious cases such as the Birmingham Six in the UK. Providing a critique of its operations, the book shows that its help to innocent victims of wrongful conviction is merely incidental.
Author Biography
MICHAEL NAUGHTON is Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK, and founder and Chair of the Innocence Network UK (INUK) and the University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP). He has written widely on miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. He is the author of Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. x |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvi |
| Foreword | p. xix |
| List of Cases | p. xxi |
| List of Statutes | p. xxiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Setting the Scene | |
| The Importance of Innocence for the Criminal Justice System | p. 17 |
| Voluntary Sector Perspectives | |
| Thoughts from a Victim Support Worker | p. 41 |
| Challenging the Refusal to Investigate Evidence Neglected by Trial Lawyers | p. 46 |
| The Failure to Live Up to its Stated Values? The Case of Michael Attwooll and John Roden | p. 59 |
| The Failure of the Review of the Possible Wrongful Convictions Caused by Michael Heath | p. 77 |
| Practitioner Perspectives | |
| Historical Abuse Cases: Why They Expose the Inadequacy of the Real Possibility Test | p. 97 |
| Only the Freshest Will Do | p. 107 |
| Applicant Solicitors: Friends or Foes? | p. 118 |
| The Inadequacy of Legal Aid | p. 134 |
| Academic Perspectives | |
| After Ten Years: An Investment in Justice? | p. 151 |
| Real Possibility or Fat Chance? | p. 166 |
| Press and Release: UK News Coverage of the CCRC since 1996 | p. 178 |
| The CCRC as an Option for Canada: Forwards or Backwards? | p. 191 |
| A View from the United States | p. 205 |
| Conclusion | |
| Conclusion | p. 221 |
| References | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 240 |
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