What is the Court of Appeal actually for?
The criminal Court of Appeal is “a court of law, not a court of justice”. Stephen Phelps argues it has become too restrictive to catch wrongful convictions.
5 November 2026
Lucy Letby
5 stories
Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (APMI) Innocence Assembly 2026
Sean Bw Parker reports from the APMI's Innocence Assembly in London, where speakers took on IPP and joint enterprise sentences, a CCRC they called unfit for purpose, and the cases of Andrew Malkinson and Peter Sullivan.
25 September 2026
Thirlwall report: ‘myopic’, ‘too early’ and ‘a mistake’
The Thirlwall inquiry found a complete failure to protect babies at the Countess of Chester — but the Guardian, the Telegraph and Peter Hitchens all asked why it reported at all while the CCRC is still weighing Lucy Letby's convictions.
16 September 2026
The Guardian view on the Criminal Cases Review Commission: after Malkinson errors, trust must be earned back
Editorial: A review ordered by Vera Baird should help the body tasked with identifying miscarriages of justice to rebuild itself.
17 July 2026
Lucy Letby: Serial killer or a miscarriage of justice?
Mathematicians and statisticians questioned the shift-pattern chart that placed Lucy Letby at every suspicious incident on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit. An extract, with our own diagram of how a chart like that is built.
9 July 2024