Guilty until proven innocent: a study of justice in error

Whenever a miscarriage of justice case hits the headlines, it is tempting to dismiss it as a shocking aberration.

A mistake in a system that otherwise functions in a perfectly satisfactory fashion.

This important book shows how the lack of an effective watchdog, failures in policing, poor legal defence in the wake of the legal aid pay freeze, an over-reliance on expert evidence and reluctance in the media to cover miscarriage cases has led to a growing crisis in the criminal justice system.