Tag Archive: THE COURT OF APPEAL

Flawed

by Janet Cunliffe © Janet Cunliffe (January 15th 2015) Labels Being Jordan Cunliffeʼs mum for the last seven and a half years hasnʼt been easy. Not just because I have had to become accustomed to my new title, ʻMother of…
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System Failures

False Impressions The prosecution team in the Lynette White murder trial included two Queens Counsels, led by David Elfer. The other became Mr Justice Roderick Evans. Elfer failed to understand Stephen Miller’s vulnerability and used a confession that was false,…
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So Who’s Next?

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (December 24th 2008) Perjury Under Duress Mark Grommek, Learnne Vilday and Angela Psaila were sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for perjury on December 19th. They are the first witnesses to be convicted of perjury…
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Ambushed

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 23rd 2012) Inconvenient Evidence The case of the Catford Three (Colin Lattimore, Ronald Leighton and Ahmet Salih) is now acknowledged as of Britain’s pivotal miscarriages of justice – one that changed the criminal…
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Born of Tragedy

by Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 15th 2012) Origins The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is over a quarter of a century old. It was established in 1986 by the Prosecution of Offences Act (1985), but why? Previously, the police…
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