Free Download Carolyn Hoyle, "Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission"
English | ISBN: 0198794576 | 2019 | 416 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 27 MB
This book reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who believe they are wrongfully convicted apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the only body that can refer a case back to the Court of Appeal once appellants’ opportunities for direct appeal are exhausted. While the Court is obliged to hear all such referrals, the Commission can only refer a case where it believes there is a ‘real possibility’ that the Court will quash the conviction. The first empirical study of all stages of decision-making within the Commission, this book starts from the premise that the test applied by the Commission (the ‘real possibility test’) is not inflexible. Though created by statute and refined through case law, it must be determined on a case-by-case basis, drawing too on cultural and structural variables, alongside fresh evidence gathered by the Commission.
