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Budget cuts threaten to slow miscarriage of justice reviews

By John Hirst

Budget cuts threaten to slow miscarriage of justice reviews

Victims of miscarriages of justice will have to wait longer for their cases to be examined because of annual cuts of £300,000 in the budget of the organisation that investigates them, it emerged yesterday.

Staff at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body that examines suspect convictions, are "angry and dispirited", and the budget cuts are threatening to damage their work, according to their chairman, Prof Graham Zellick.

There is something not right about the Ministry of Justice which has failed to prevent the injustice of innocents being falsely imprisoned in the first place, reducing the budget of an organisation with the task of reviewing miscarriages of justice.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).