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.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) such as Justice, as well as the Information Commissioner, that the measures are disproportionate and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) With respect, I am talking about Justice, which I think referenced 40 organisations. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) of the holders of the accounts. - Speech Link
4: None postmasters are one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history, and I am very surprised - Speech Link
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Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) I hope that she is assured by the fact that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs and I - Speech Link
2: McNeill, Pauline (Lab - Glasgow) We all want the quickest route to justice, and that might be a quicker route. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) what was the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history.A sub-postmaster of a post - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) The tragedy of his point about justice delayed being justice denied is that older victims of these scandals - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) miscarriage of justice in British legal history, the Post Office Horizon scandal. - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) All involve miscarriages of justice and, because of the delays in redress, we find that many victims - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) It is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our history, which is why we have introduced a Bill - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Both of whose families have used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax, smearing a working-class - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Justice should not have a price tag. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I believe the Ministry of Justice is urgently looking at the matter. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) scandal, one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in living history. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) of cost of living pressures on consumer confidence arising from a range of factors, including inflation - Speech Link
3: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) scrutiny to ensure the most effective process for the wrongly accused sub-postmasters to receive the justice - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) justice, and we need to ensure that the schemes do not eat away at the subsidies that should be paying - Speech Link