Jon Robins

"This book should be a call to arms. If you are a tribune of the people pouring scorn on 'activist lawyers', I dare you to read this. If you have never felt comfortable with the 'activist’ tag, it may tempt you to reconsider." Shami Chakrabarti on #JusticeInATime of Austerity

"We're taught to believe our justice system is fair. Everyone is equal and its impossible for an innocent person to go to prison for a crime they didn't commit. What if that's not true?" THE OVERTURN, a new podcast, launches tomorrow on all platforms🔗 futurejustice.org.uk/podcast/

There are at least 90 children in prisons across UK serving life sentences. New @JENGbA campaign to stamp out 'morally indefensible' practice. We're only country in Europe doling out life sentences to U18yos - Russia and Turkley have outlawed practice thejusticegap.com/morally-indefe…

MI5 director general apologises to woman, ‘Beth’, after years of abuse at hands of a neo-Nazi informant. MI5 provided false evidence to three courts in an attempt to contain fallout. ‘MI5 are still protecting a violent misogynistic predator,' says 'Beth'. thejusticegap.com/mi5-chief-apol…

📢 MARK GEORGE KC MEMORIAL LECTURE - DATE ANNOUNCED 📢 The Mark George KC Memorial Lecture, which will examine the issue of wrongful convictions, will take place at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 21 April, from 5:30-7:30pm. Free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-george-…

Fourteenth dodgy Ridgewell conviction referred to Court of Appeal - The Justice Gap - goo.gl/alerts/F2JCtE #GoogleAlerts

Omar Benguit has spent 23 years in prison but new evidence suggests he was framed by police Dorset Police said its investigation was "thorough, detailed and very complex" It said the case had been dismissed twice by the Court of Appeal bbc.in/4aU4bYM

Miscarriages of justice are inevitable without urgent and ‘long overdue’ reforms to forensic science according to a House of Lords inquiry. Today peers have urged the government to rectify a 'shocking abdication of responsibility' for critical forensics thejusticegap.com/peers-warn-mis…

"It has been ten years since the Supreme Court admitted that the law on joint enterprise had ‘taken a wrong turn." As we mark ten years since the Jogee ruling, I’ve written in @JusticeGap about why justice cannot wait another ten years 👇 thejusticegap.com/kim-johnson-mp…

CCRC finds that 135 CCTV tapes from the original police investigation had gone missing and, according to the BBC, 15 prosecution witnesses pressured into lying, Shocking.

Turns out 'the man with no alibi' always had one: Dorset Police accused of 'framing' Omar Benguit and 'burying' alibi. BBC's Bronagh Munro on an appalling miscarriage of justice thejusticegap.com/omar-benguit-d…

Appeal judges accused of serially ‘failing to learn lessons of past’: @APPGMJ hears from Justin Plummer, Peter Sullivan & Oliver Campbell who spent a total of 77 yrs wrongly imprisoned - all had convictions overturned but not a penny in compensation paid: thejusticegap.com/appeal-judges-…

Powerful APPG on Miscarriages of Justice event hearing from Oliver Campbell, Peter Sullivan & Justin Plummer – three wrongly convicted men who spent a total of 77 years in prison. Their stories show a system failing people twice: convicting the innocent & abandoning them after.

Looking forward to chairing this really important event in Parliament this evening. The ‘unconscionable cruelty’ of current arrangements for miscarriage of justice compensation must end. thejusticegap.com/unconscionable…

The Justice Secretary once pledged to fix the injustice of joint enterprise. Yet, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the Jogee ruling, meaningful law reform is still missing. No more broken promises. Justice delayed is justice denied. @JENGbA

We could ease the prison capacity crisis by reforming joint enterprise law. It’s no surprise we’re running out of prison spaces if we’re locking up multiple people – often unjustly – for a single crime, even if they made little or no significant contribution.

Today’s Sun…

Chaos in forensics sector: 'We don't know how much money is spent or how many delays there are,' Home Office minister Sarah Jones tells @LordsSTCom. The largest provider has 86% of the market – but government doesn't actually know how much it pays them. thejusticegap.com/forensics-cris…

Richard Gill shortlisted for the Nature, John Maddox prize for his work on the misuse of statistics in the criminal justice system, particularly in relation to the Letby, de Berk and Poggiali cases nature.com/immersive/madd…

'New broom has a lot of cleaning-up to do': @JonRobins10 on whether the appointment of Vera Baird as new chair of CCRC will bring an end to the prolonged period of chaos at the miscarriage of justice watchdog: thejusticegap.com/new-broom-has-…

Full reports to follow on the @JusticeGap. More here on the ‘dangers of cell confession’: thejusticegap.com/31047-2/

Justin Plummer’s conviction for 1998 murder overturned in 2023 after ‘pioneering’ expert evidence discredited; second conviction overturned yesterday over self-evidently dodgy cell confession from a schizophrenic police informant. Me & @shattenstone theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…