‘Our system of justice is innocent until proven guilty’

May 11, 2011

‘Our system of justice is innocent until proven guilty’: UK Supreme Court rules against government on compensation for miscarriages of justice. Press release related to JUSTICE’s intervention in the case of Adams v Secretary of State for Justice. By a majority of 5-4, the UK Supreme Court rejected the government’s arguments that only people who could prove their innocence would […]

JUSTICE challenges the membership of the bill of rights commission

March 30, 2011

JUSTICE questioned the appropriateness and legality of the commission appointed by the Lord Chancellor to consider a UK Bill of Rights. And, in a letter to Mr Clarke, JUSTICE queried the appointment of a membership so lacking in diversity. Press Release, Membership of the bill of rights commission JUSTICE letter to Ken Clarke