Formal Minutes Apr. 25 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: ) Ministry of Justice (TCS0054) 3.
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management InformationFound: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management Information
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management InformationFound: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management Information
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management InformationFound: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management Information
Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: Correspondence from The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP Secretary of State for Business and Trade to the Committee
Mentions:
1: None the journey to justice. - Speech Link
2: Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (Con - Life peer) for the presumption to remain in place for one minute longer means that there is a genuine risk that miscarriages - Speech Link
3: None Alex Chalk, then a junior Minister in the Ministry of Justice, is also quoted. - Speech Link
4: None the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and section 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 for the equivalent - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) of Children Act 1978 and Section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, both of which create offences - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nicoll, Audrey (SNP - Aberdeen South and North Kincardine) Good morning and welcome to the 15th meeting in 2024 of the Criminal Justice Committee. - Speech Link
2: None In 2018, the PIRC reported to the Justice Committee that it had found evidence of criminal allegations - Speech Link
3: None Section 164 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 introduced a code of practice regarding - Speech Link
4: None that the most common causes of miscarriages of justice—I argue that what happened to me was a miscarriage - Speech Link
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences: preliminary findingsFound: Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences: preliminary findings
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help support victims of historic miscarriages of justice to appeal their convictions.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
Where the normal time limit for appeals through the courts has passed and where an individual believes they have been wrongly convicted of a crime in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, including in historic cases, they can apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which is an independent public body funded by the Ministry of Justice. The CCRC can investigate and where it considers that there is a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld were the reference to be made, can refer cases back to the courts.
There is no time limit on any application and the service is free.
To ensure that the appeals system is working effectively, the Government has asked the Law Commission to conduct an independent and wide-ranging Review of the appeals system. The Review will consider the issues raised by the Westminster Commission (2021) on miscarriages of justice, which includes the tests used by the CCRC and the Court of Appeal, and the government will then consider the review’s findings, and any recommendations for change in the law, very carefully.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II.