Jon Robins

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

The Crisis in Our Justice System

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Whenever a miscarriage of justice hits the headlines, it is tempting to dismiss it as an anomaly - a minor hiccup in an otherwise healthy judicial system. Yet the cases of injustice that feature in this book reveal that they are not just minor hiccups, but symptoms of a chronic illness plaguing the British legal system.Massive underfunding, catastrophic failures in policing and shoddy legal representation have all contributed to a deepening crisis - one that the watchdog set up for the very purpose of investigating miscarriages of justice has done precious little to remedy. Indeed, little has changed since the 'bad old days' of the Guildford… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78590-390-8
EAN: 9781785903908
Produktnummer: 27162466
Verlag: Biteback Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 699 KB

Über den Autor

Jon Robins is a freelance journalist and author. He writes regularly for the Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Daily Express and Sunday Express. He also runs the Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) - an award-winning online magazine aimed at the public about 'law and justice - and the difference between the two'. He has won the Bar Council's legal journalist of the year twice and was shortlisted for last year's Criminal Justice Alliance awards.