Hosted by the Bar Council and Inside Justice as part of Justice Week 2021, this panel session focuses on accessing justice for wrongful convictions. Our speakers examine the work required in a real-life investigation to identify a killer, and have the murder conviction of an innocent man quashed.
Watch the session video below.
Our panel detail the twists and turns of a real case which took ten years to be resolved by the courts, and reflect on whether that same work would be possible in today's criminal justice system.
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The panel
Chair
Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar of England & Wales
Panellists
- Louise Shorter, Founder of Inside Justice
- Tracy Alexander, Director of Forensic Services at City of London Police and President of British Academy of Forensic Sciences and a Trustee and Advisory Panel Member at Inside Justice
- Damian Allain, Head of Casework at Inside Justice and a former New Scotland Yard Senior Detective specialising in homicide investigation and serious and organised crime
Inside Justice, a charity dedicated to investigating miscarriages of justice, receives hundreds of applications every year from people claiming to have been wrongly convicted. To find out more about Inside Justice and the work they do please visit their website or watch this short video.