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    Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Crisis in Our Justice System

    By Jon Robins

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    Whenever a miscarriage of justice hits the headlines, it is tempting to dismiss it as an anomaly – a minor hiccup in an otherwise healthy judicial system. Yet the cases of injustice that feature in this book reveal that they are not just minor hiccups, but symptoms of a chronic illness plaguing the British legal system.

    Massive underfunding, catastrophic failures in policing and shoddy legal representation have all contributed to a deepening crisis – one that the watchdog set up for the very purpose of investigating miscarriages of justice has done precious little to remedy. Indeed, little has changed since the ‘bad old days’ of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six.

    Award winning journalist Jon Robins lifts the lid on Britain’s legal scandals and exposes the disturbing complacency that has led to many innocent people being deemed guilty, either in the eyes of the law or in the court of public opinion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiteback Publishing
    Release dateMay 8, 2018
    ISBN9781785903908
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    Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Crisis in Our Justice System
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    Jon Robins

    Jon Robins is a freelance journalist and author. He writes regularly for the Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Daily Express and Sunday Express. He also runs the Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) – an award-winning online magazine aimed at the public about ‘law and justice – and the difference between the two’. He has won the Bar Council’s legal journalist of the year twice and was shortlisted for last year’s Criminal Justice Alliance awards.

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