@DebRoberts22249 If that were true,should it take an uninstructed acting pro bono to file?Or should the system kick in as soon as there are doubts?MoJ should be considered a heinous crime and those involved prosecuted-if not deliberate,then like manslaughter,if deliberate,take the same penalty
@DebRoberts22249 We will see if it is unfair - ‘fast track’ is very slow in any event. What other cases of potential MoJ would you like to have seen go ahead of her?
@DebRoberts22249 I wasn’t referring to LL case necessarily, I was referring to all potential MoJ cases. Davis excepted, they defer to waiting for the legal system, rather than fixing the legal system which is far too slow and imbalanced for dealing with potential MoJ
@DebRoberts22249 politicians got involved in the legal process-they won’t with a potential MoJ-but the attorney general has the power to force a review of sentencing, so they are within the law. It is inappropriate to be so public when children are involved-all children are victims 2/2
@DebRoberts22249 I agree Deb it was misreported. It was a terrible crime, and the media (followed by politicians want revenge). They pretend it is about deterrence- as if potential punishment is a primary consideration for an offender of a serious crime - but it is revenge. 1/2
@DanNeidle Ok. But there are lots of government revenue sources that didn’t used to be there, that are phrased as fees and excluded, but are really taxes on some subset of society. I will look up ONS definition
@Courtwatch_Olly@mervynpervyn@RupertBear_pup@markjurgenmayes 50 was a hypothetical number just to make a point. Yes, CCRC should get an independent expert review of the reports submitted to them to see if they have merit. The starting point is not that everything said before is fact
@RupertBear_pup@mervynpervyn@markjurgenmayes You are missing my point. What if the evidence before and after was emails and photos and the prosecution had a witness saying, ‘they are all fake’ and now there are 50 specialists that say no, they are not fake, look at the digital signature (which was available before)
@RupertBear_pup@mervynpervyn@markjurgenmayes She wasn’t dead before and the evidence was there to show that. It just wasn’t believed by the jury who found me guilty and under uk law no, it isn’t new evidence. The bar to prove there was a MoJ is extremely high
@RupertBear_pup@mervynpervyn@markjurgenmayes What is new evidence and should the legal definition of this be the deciding factor? If I was found guilty for murdering my wife, but she turned up alive in Australia (in the trial I provided my eye witness evidence, but the jury didn’t believe me) is that new evidence?
@RupertBear_pup@mervynpervyn@markjurgenmayes Define ‘new’ - and don’t hide behind legal definitions. If the interpretation of evidence given in trial was flawed, and this is scientifically accepted as a more likely possibility, is that new? Do you care if an innocent person is locked up based on flawed interpretation?
@RupertBear_pup@mervynpervyn@markjurgenmayes To be completely fair, they said this in a draft summary of their reports and not the peer reviewed individual reports that were submitted to CCRC