The First Miscarriage of Justice
The 'Unreported and Amazing' Case of Tony Stock
'I would have been the first miscarriage of justice... There was this spate of cases: the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Cardiff Three. Each one was another nail in my coffin': Tony Stock. The story of Tony Stock is astonishing: deeply disturbing it sent out ripples of disquiet when he was sentenced to ten years for robbery at Leeds Assizes in 1970. Over the next 40 years the case went to the Court of Appeal four times and has the distinction of being the first to have been referred to that court twice by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. 'The story of Tony Stock should be mandatory readin…
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- ISBN: 978-1-909976-12-2
- EAN: 9781909976122
- Produktnummer: 16576045
- Verlag: Waterside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.4 cm 398 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 398
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Jon Robins also uses Stock's epic campaign as a way of exploring the treatment of miscarriages of justice over the last four decades. He has been writing about law and justice for the national and specialist press for many years, including about the Stock case for The Times, Guardian and others. He is a visiting senior fellow in access to justice at the University of Lincoln, a patron of Hackney Community Law Centre and founder of www.thejusticegap.com (an online magazine about law and justice).
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