Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

A serial liar who made false allegations of historical abuse lead to the wrongful imprisonment of a firefighter with an unblemished record of public service has been charged with perverting the course ...

Last week, the first prisoners were removed from HMP Holloway to Downview prison in Surrey. This marked the beginning of the closure of Holloway, announced by the government in November 2015, ...

Can the latter motivation lead the viewer to ask a deeper set of questions about justice in cases of joint enterprise? Dr ...

When Billy Power of the Birmingham Six walked free from the Central Criminal Court in March 1991 after more than 16 years’ wrongful imprisonment, he asked the hundreds of journalists assembled on ...

The last woman to be hanged in the UK has been formally pardoned, her death sentence posthumously commuted for life in prison ...

Fifty years after the Guildford bombings, startling new forensic evidence in the case is apparently being sat on by the body ...

Prisons in England and Wales are still failing to provide basic education, work and training, leaving many prisoners locked ...

The results of a secret inquiry into MI5 have found serious failings in the way they handled a misogynistic and abusive agent ...

On 7 and 8 July, the High Court in London will hear a case that asks a deceptively simple question: are workers who lose ...

Murder is to intentionally take another’s life. For such a heinous crime there must be an equally severe punishment. Something to hurt the perpetrator, deter others and protect society from further ...

The man convicted of the murder of Lin and Megan Russell in 1996 is to have a new DNA sample taken this week as part of his ...