Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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Editorial: A review ordered by Vera Baird should help the body tasked with identifying miscarriages of justice to rebuild itself.
17 July 2026
The psychologist whose report made Merseyside Police suspect Eddie Gilfoyle of murdering his pregnant wife now calls his own advice 'nonsense'.
3 July 2026
Patrick O'Loan draws a parallel between the grooming gang scandal and the handling of false allegations: in both, institutions feared activist backlash more than injustice.
27 May 2026
Filmmakers Fran Robertson and Jemma Gander report from Joe Outlaw's trial, where a jury heard the indefinite IPP sentence itself put on trial.
8 May 2026
Bettina Arndt on Scottish judges and the push to tilt justice systems toward accusers at the expense of fair trials.
19 February 2026
The Falsely Accused Network argues it is time to charge false accusers with the offence of coercive control.
20 May 2025
Brian Thornton on how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue, from disclosure failures to an overloaded CCRC.
5 March 2025
Two Toronto defence lawyers set out how false memories reach the criminal courts, and what R. v Tan and R v SKM show about testing recovered-memory evidence.
16 January 2025
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
A Bristol criminologist inverts the instruction: if police and prosecutors had to believe every claimed victim of a false allegation, would they accept it?
22 January 2024
A law professor hopes an independent commission aimed at dealing with cases of wrongful conviction will stop cases like Alan Hall's taking decades to rectify.
19 August 2023
The headline of a report in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 22 March 2023 read, “Gobbo seeks immunity deal to dob on police.” Gobbo refers, of course, to Nicola…
3 April 2023
Jonathan King on Prince Andrew, EMI and a corrupted justice system, and the campaign he says was built to stop him.
21 March 2023
Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’
15 February 2023
Bettina Arndt on courts withholding mobile phone evidence that could clear men accused of sexual assault.
11 January 2023
ST. LOUIS (MO)Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
8 September 2022
19 August 2022
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
Wealthy executives and celebrities increasingly turn to lawyers to fight sextortion plots demanding tens of thousands for silence.
25 July 2022
Admin: A must-read from Joseph A. Neuberger & Diana Davison on alarming developments in Canadian law (Neuberger & Partners LLP, Toronto Criminal Lawyers)
1 July 2022
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22 June 2022
Speaking out: Lady Brittan is seeking justice over the treatment of her husband, the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, after false allegations were made…
1 March 2022
Prince Andrew has denied allegations made against him by Virginia Giuffre
10 February 2022
For those committed to preserving a society worth living in, few sights could be more dispiriting than that of mass rallies undermining the presumption of…
19 March 2021
The Australian government may fall because of unproven and extremely dodgy 30-year-old rape allegations against a cabinet minister – the unchecked power of the #MeToo movement and its woke media allies is destroying our society.
9 March 2021
An attorney for UCF professor Charles Negy describes the nine-hour inquisition the university mounted after his controversial tweets sparked calls for his firing.
13 August 2020
An appeal court confirms complainants in sexual assault trials are not to be granted better footing than any other witness or complainant.
18 June 2020
One of Australia's most respected former detectives, Colin McLaren, breaks rank to explain why he no longer trusts the judicial system — and why Australia still has no criminal cases review commission.
13 June 2020
New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission opens for applications on 1 July 2020, leaving Australia the outlier with no equivalent body.
24 May 2020
Carl Beech is a liar, fraudster and paedophile.
26 July 2019
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
22 May 2018
On the trail of the IICSAthon Part 2: Still waters running deep and the trigger that opened the floodgates
22 September 2016
An Oxford study of 30 interviews finds teachers and carers cleared of abuse are ‘a new and growing class of victims’, left with wrecked careers and enduring trauma.
19 May 2016