The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent?

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: Michael Naughton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/29/2009
Pages: 247
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780230390614

About the Author
STEVEN BIRD established Bird& Co. solicitors in October 2000. He specialises in serious criminal cases and deals with potential miscarriages of justice and other matters in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) or by way of application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. KATHRYN CAMPBELL is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada DENNIS EADY is the Campaign Officer for South Wales Against Wrongful Convictions, a derivative of South Wales Liberty (SWL). ANDREW GREEN is the co-founder of United Against Injustice (UAI), a federal organisation of miscarriage of justice victim-support groups HAZEL KIERLE is a legal assistant in criminal and civil cases. She is the Director of Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO), (England and Wales), a human-rights-based organisation KEVIN KERRIGAN is Reader and Associate Dean at the School of Law, Northumbria University, UK GLYN MADDOCKS is a Partner and the Head of the Civil Litigation Department of Gabb& Co., UK. He specialises in all aspects of civil litigation including and in particular, personal injury, clinical negligence, public law and judicial review CAMPBELL MALONE is a Partner of Stephenson's law firm, UK, with an extensive experience in challenging miscarriages of justice PAUL MASON is Director of Postgraduate Research in the School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at Cardiff University, UK MARK NEWBY is a Solicitor and the Director of the Historical Abuse Appeal Panel (HAAP) RICHARD NOBLES is Professor in Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK ROBERT SCHEHR is Professor of Criminal Justice in Northern Arizona University DAVID SCHIFF is Professor in Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK SATISH SEKAR is a freelance journalist in the UK specialising in criminal justice issues, racism and miscarriages of justice GABE TAN is the Database Manager and Research Officer of the Innocence Network UK (INUK) CLIVE WALKER is Professor of Criminal Justice Studies and former Dean of the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK