Joint enterprise: how driving friends to buy a pizza could get you convicted for murder – Julie Price

Posted on 14 July 2014 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on The Conversation The legal concept of joint enterprise caused outrage in South Africa in 2012, when 270 miners were charged with the murder of 34 colleagues in a police shooting at Marikana. Their crime? Being in the crowd that confronted the police during a prolonged workers’ strike. Charges against them
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Diary of a UK Innocence Project 12: Once there was hope, now there is Nunn – Julie Price

Posted on 23 June 2014 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on thejusticegap.com On this week’s Supreme Court ruling in the case of Kevin Nunn, Louise Shorter at Inside Justice observes, ‘This places an important new duty on the Commission not to refuse arbitrarily to investigate cases as happened to Victor Nealon.’ But are things going to change in practice post Nunn,
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Diary of a UK Innocence Project 11: A Case of Joint Enterprise – Julie Price

Posted on 28 May 2014 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on thejusticegap.com This is the story behind Cardiff Law School’s Innocence Project’s eighth submission to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). ‘It was the late 1970s. I was a 15-year old Asian boy, who had arrived in the UK with poor English. Before I came to the UK I hadn’t been
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Diary of a UK Innocence Project 9: A Week of Innocence and Common Purpose – Julie Price

Posted on 17 April 2014 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on thejusticegap.com Our fourth Innocence Week has been and gone. It’s Cardiff Law School’s annual contribution to raising awareness of wrongful convictions and problems with the criminal appeals system. We also use it to fundraise for South Wales Against Wrongful Conviction (formerly South Wales Liberty), our local support group that offers
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Diary of a UK Innocence Project 8: Second Time Lucky? – Julie Price

Posted on 19 March 2014 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on thejusticegap.com Since its inception in 1997 the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had, until today, only ever referred one case to the Court of Appeal more than once: the case of Tony Stock. We welcome today’s news that this number has doubled, with the CCRC just announcing its second-ever second
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Diary of UK Innocence Project 6: Not expecting the unexpected – Julie Price

Posted on 15 November 2013 by Christopher Burns

This blog first appeared on thejusticegap.com We have just received news that has come as a shock, but for the right reasons. After eight years of the hard slog of casework, with one setback after another, frustration followed by exasperation, there is welcome news – a first for Cardiff Law School Innocence Project. The Criminal
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