Reposted by James Meek
‘You can be entirely innocent, with obvious vulnerabilities, imprisoned for 38 years on evidence that is completely false, but the Court of Appeal will still not feel it needs to learn anything from what went wrong.’
Matt Foot on the need to reform the Court of Appeal.
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The judges might argue that the Court of Appeal is a court of review, whose job is simply to assess whether a conviction...