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23 October 2000

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Preventing miscarriages of justice: A summary and initial response to the report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice: This pamphlet puts the Royal Commission's recommendations into the context of an analysis of the causes of miscarriages of justice and thereby shows how inadequate and wrong-headed the Commission has been. All the main recommendations are set out and critically examined and there is an extremely useful chronology at the end taking in miscarriages and associated events from October 1989 on. Legal Action Group August 1993. 3.50. 17pp.

An error of judgement Mike McConville. Legal Action pp6-7 September 1993. Edited version of McConville's presentation at the LSEs "Criminal Justice after the Royal Commission' debate.
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice Viscount Runciman (Chair). HMSO (Cm 2263) 1993 pp261 21.50.

Monitoring of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 - data from a special data collection exercise Home Office Statistical Bulletin 25/93, 1993.

Parliamentary debates

Criminal justice 13.5.93 Commons cols 939-951 Reinsurance (Acts of terrorism) Bill 13.5.93 Commons cols 969- 1011 Legal Aid 8.6.93 Commons cols 245-252 Criminal Justice Bill (Lords) 29.6.93 Commons cols 837-929 Bail (Amendment) Bill 2.7.93 Commons cols 1235-1267

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