INUK Issues Public Statement on the Limitations of the Criminal Cases Review...
Press Release (15/12/2011): INUK Issues Public Statement on the Limitations of the Criminal Cases Review Commission Innocent people are still languishing in prison despite a publicly funded body that...
View ArticlePotential Wrongful Convictions: Failed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
The Innocence Network UK (INUK) today, publishes a dossier of 44 cases of alleged innocent victims of wrongful conviction. All of these cases have been refused a referral back to the Court of Appeal at...
View ArticleNo CCRC for South Australia but new statutory right of appeal for certain...
On the 18th July 2012 the South Australian Legislative Review Committee on the CCRC Bill Reported that it would not be recommending that a CCRC-style body be established in South Australia. Instead, of...
View ArticleReview of Criminal Cases Review Commission to reveal how innocent victims of...
Click here to download INUK’s Report on the Reform of the CCRC. Click here for University of Bristol Press Release A review of the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s (CCRC) effectiveness as the only...
View ArticleInnocence Network UK at the Supreme Court 13 March 2014
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/news/2014/425.html On Thursday 13 March staff and student volunteers with the University of Bristol based Innocence Network UK (INUK) attended the Supreme Court hearing of...
View ArticleDr Michael Naughton elected to the Innocence Network Board
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/news/2014/433.html Dr Michael Naughton, Reader in Sociology and Law, has been elected to the Innocence Network Board. The Innocence Network is an affiliation of...
View ArticleSupreme Court affirms a positive role for innocence project investigations...
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/news/2014/443.html In a judgment handed down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday 18th June 2014, a positive role for investigations into alleged miscarriages of justice by...
View ArticleArticle by Dr Michael Naughton in The Conversation: Gerry Conlon’s life is...
The article can be viewed in The Conversation Gerry Conlon, wrongly jailed for a 1975 IRA bombing in which he had no part, died on June 21 at the age of 60. The case of the Guildford Four remains one...
View ArticleINUK – New beginnings
At the end of this year’s membership (September 2014), INUK will no longer be renewing or taking memberships from universities and/or law firms. We believe that with 30+ innocence projects around the...
View ArticleINUK: Setting the record straight
Various sources have wrongly reported that Dr Carole McCartney was a co-founder of Innocence Network UK (INUK). This is not correct. INUK was founded by Dr Michael Naughton alone who also directed the...
View ArticleINUK as an umbrella for member innocence projects
When Dr Naughton established the University of Bristol Innocence Project, the first innocence project pro bono law clinic in the UK, he was literally inundated with requests by colleagues and students...
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