The CCRC Case Studies Hub contains in-depth features on its work, including articles on unreliable confession cases, reviews into ‘controlled delivery’ drug operations, asylum and immigration investigations and referrals of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences. The CCRC intends to publish case studies and articles fortnightly.
A CCRC spokesperson said: ‘These thematic case studies will help people understand more fully the range of the work carried out by our team, and the basis on which our many hundreds of referrals have been made.
‘We hope this will assist potential applicants and support our work in finding and investigating possible miscarriages of justice.’
The CCRC, which investigates miscarriages of justice and can refer cases to the Court of Appeal, has come under fire recently over its failures in the Andrew Malkinson case—Malkinson, who is entirely innocent, was wrongly convicted of rape and held in prison for 17 years despite the emergence of fresh evidence. CCRC chair Helen Pitcher resigned in January, after the Lord Chancellor set up an independent panel to consider Pitcher’s role as chair and ordered a review.
Pitcher said in her resignation letter she had been held ‘personally responsible for historical failures’ over which she had no control.
View the CCRC Case Studies Hub at ccrc.gov.uk/case-library.
