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Book review: Guilty Until Proven Innocent—The Crisis in Our Justice System

08 June 2018 / Dr Lucy Welsh
Issue: 7796 / Categories: Features
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“Robins is able to offer a holistic account & understanding of the impact of alleged wrongful convictions on those who have been so convicted”

Author: Jon Robins
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-785-90369-4
Price: £12.99

There can be little doubt that there is a crisis in our justice system. The Law Society and Criminal Law Solicitors Association have both (separately) launched judicial review proceedings against the Ministry of Justice in the midst of funding cuts, and barristers have been refusing to accept new casework in protest at a new funding regime. This book tells a sobering story, or rather set of stories, that have contributed to the present crisis of legitimacy in the criminal justice process.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent offers, through an analysis of real criminal cases allied with an in-depth understanding of appeal procedures, a full and compelling narrative about how miscarriages of justice occur and what could be done to prevent and to rectify them. It is an important account of real problems in criminal procedure that have been swept aside for decades.

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