Cardiff University Innocence Project

Through casework & education, we highlight problems with the criminal appeals system. AKA Cardiff Law School Innocence Project. Usual disclaimers apply.

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BREAKING NEWS: We're pleased to announce that the Court of Appeal has overturned Gareth Jones’s conviction – our second successful appeal. Thread to follow shortly, but here's an outline: https://t.co/dmPApkxsFI 1/x

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Another article from our Dr Eady on @JusticeGap about the current obsession with mass imprisonment in our society

https://t.co/sfBWsVLDhM

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Dr Eady responds to the recent article by Francis Fitzgibbon KC in @JusticeGap https://t.co/TxuK2A8RGQ

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'Delusion or no Delusion, Justice is still worth Fighting for' - read the latest piece by our very own Dr Dennis Eady in @JusticeGap

https://t.co/aLZ3B6R4pf

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Would you be interested in working for Cardiff Innocence Project?

Do you have experience of criminal appeals as a practitioner?

Please follow this link - https://t.co/Y0E0BBLmzK

Colleagues from the innocence project would be happy to chat to anyone interested

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Another article in the Justice Delusion series by Dr Dennis Eady. He reflects on a few recent political postures and draws a parallel with the mode of thinking employed to sustain miscarriages of justice.

https://t.co/HiG0ETjI6C

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We have been calling for a change on this for years.
Transcription costs are prohibitive to many prospective appellants -requiring people to pay hundreds to thousands of pounds is unethical. Having a record of the trial proceedings in which you were convicted should be a right.

[Holly Greenwood @HollyGreenwood8]

It is good this issue is finally getting some media attention - people should have the right to access a record of their trial without having to bear the cost.

[The Justice Gap @justicegap.bsky.social @JusticeGap]

Crime victims call for end to 'exploitative' court transcript costs: @BBCNewsnight talks to rape survivor quoted £7.5K for trial transcript; in 2016 we reported one person claiming to be wrongly convicted quoted £19,000 for 3 wk trial. Pic: @otium_Catulle https://t.co/YNfx2fBa93

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https://t.co/EQrKZfHdEI

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Brian Buckle was acquitted of sex offences after paying a £500,000 'innocence tax'.

But, 'How many more Brians are out there?' asks Head of Pro Bono, Professor Julie Price, as she gives some statistics to explain the wider context.

https://t.co/XKiiszF80H

The Justice Delusion

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'Whether the Malkinson case will really bring about change... or just a greater cover-up to avoid further criticism, remains to be seen.'

'...Individual stories are not the whole story: they may merely reflect occasional cracks in a greater delusion of justice.'

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Dr Dennis Eady's take on the media response to the Andrew Malkinson case, and the implications on the wider system and other victims of wrongful convictions.

https://t.co/WRobJw5sN5

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In this introduction, Dr Dennis Eady, Director of our Project, dissects our faith-based approach to our criminal justice system.

'We need to examine our faith in the justice system and question whether it is leading good people to do bad things.'

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We have been indoctrinated to believe that the criminal justice system has integrity and demands fairness and proof.

We never question it; until that moment faced by our clients when they realise we have been suffering under a dangerous misapprehension.

https://t.co/x8qgZGyc5y

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There are of course aspects of the justice system which are necessary and commendable.

However, the unquestioning faith that the system demands, and often receives, is a dangerous 'delusion'.

It is one that demands us to believe things that we simultaneously know to be untrue.

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Fuelled by despair, we've decided to launch an initiative exploring one of the most prevalent myths of modern times: Justice.

Welcome to 'The Justice Delusion'.

https://t.co/MjCksFfEQM

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'The best justice system in the world', people say.

There is no doubt that there are worse systems and worse police forces in some countries, but what is the evidence base for believing ours is the best?

Do they believe the same of their own systems in Norway, Germany etc?

[The Justice Gap @justicegap.bsky.social @JusticeGap]

Former High Court judge speaks out about how the lack of legal aid is leading to miscarriages of justice: Sir Richard Henriques highlights legal aid 'deserts' and poor quality advice as 'plainly a weakness in system' https://t.co/pN8wAcYnfr

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Andy Malkinson on the CCRC: “I feel an apology is the least I am owed, but it seems like the very body set up to address the system’s fallibility is labouring under the delusion that it is itself infallible. How many more people has it failed?”
https://t.co/M2eMc5gWIr

[Danny Shaw @DannyShawNews]

A THREAD:

Will Andy Malkinson get compensation?

Until 2006, ‘yes’, without doubt.

Now it’ll be much harder.

The rules have been significantly tightened..ostensibly to stop payouts to people cleared on appeal on technical grounds or those who may have committed the offence.