You may by now have started to hear rumblings that lawyers are not happy. You may not have paid very much attention, thinking that it was probably just lawyers concerned more…

There are proposals to limit the advice given to persons arrested in the police station to a duty solicitor, as opposed to allowing them to request their own solicitor. I more…

This weekend I was  surprised to see a well-respected human rights commentator expressing concern about a news report failing to mention the full details of a man’s conviction for causing more…

ANALYSIS. Kim Evans on three important events looking at the investigation of miscarriages of justice in the last three weeks. ‘Whilst there are problems with the Criminal Case Review Commission more…

As a police station advisor, there is nothing guaranteed to make my heart sink more than a client who needs an interpreter for their interview. You can read John Storer more…

Do you really understand what’s meant by your ‘right to silence’? A report showed that only one in 10 of people given a caution really understood it, although 96% claimed more…

How many of us when posting messages to twitter or Facebook ever stop to think where those messages may end up, or who they might be seen by? Paul Chambers more…

‘Today’s orthodoxy may be tomorrow’s outdated learning,’ reflected  Lord Justice Toulson when considering a case where the evidence of expert scientific witnesses was central to the case. Last month the more…

I was a serving officer with the Metropolitan police in 1993 when I heard of Stephen Lawrence’s brutal murder at the hands of a gang of racist thugs. The Lord more…

‘You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you more…

Three years ago almost to the day, Kay Gilderdale helped her daughter to die. She didn’t want to, but her daughter had finally tired of her suffering, and so this more…

Have you ever been invited along to the police station for a chat? Would you think twice if you were? This weeks’ blog is about the police interview, and how more…

I was disappointed, although not altogether surprised, to read yesterday that Stafford Scott and John Noblemunn have resigned from the IPCC community reference group. The three-man group was set up more…

David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham has renewed calls for the officer who shot Mark Duggan to be suspended. Speaking in a House of Commons’ debate yesterday, Lammy said more…

ADVICE GUIDE: Around one and a half million people are arrested every year in England and Wales. It can be a frightening experience. If you’ve had the misfortune to be more…

I was reading this really rather excellent blog by @_millymoo on the guff currently being spouted by our PM David Cameron on national adoption week. In her usual no-nonsense fashion, more…

On Wednesday, the appeals of Blackshaw and Sutcliffe, the so-called ‘Facebook Rioters’ were dismissed in The High Court, and their prison sentences upheld. Most commentators seemed to accept judicial wisdom more…

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s (ok 60s and 70s) it seemed as if the major worry for parents of teens was pregnancy. Unmarried motherhood and more…

As I help my teenage children to tiptoe through the hormonal minefield that is their teenage years, I wonder if they are lucky or unlucky in their mother’s choice of more…

Somewhere in the world, an 11-year old child lies on a mattress on the floor in a police cell. He is wearing a paper suit having soiled his own clothes. His Asberger’s means he is frightened of the toilet (it’s the wrong colour). He’s hungry and thirsty, his OCD means he can’t eat foods that have touched each other and he’s been in the cell for 11 hours.