02 March 2021
It’s 30 years since the last Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, and it will soon be time for another one―the government announced in 2019 that another commission will be established to review the criminal justice process.
Writing in NLJ this week, Martin Rackstraw, partner, Russell-Cooke, looks at the impact made by the 1991 commission, chaired by Viscount Runciman, and how it shaped the criminal justice system we have today. The 1991 commission followed some ‘appalling miscarriages’, Rackstraw writes, and ‘revelations of serious police misconduct in some recent ones, and the inability or unwillingness of the courts to address such misconduct, ran through the report’. He casts a critical eye over the current justice system.
What can we expect from the next commission?
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