Miscarriages of justice: are the bad old days returning?

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Cuts are taking their toil throughout the justice system. At the Criminal Cases Review Commission they are biting particularly hard. Staff there, according to Graham Zellick, the retiring chairman, are angry and dispirited. The upshot will be ?melancholic challenges? for his successor, ?as damaging in practice as they are demoralising in prospect?. Zellick, who steps down next week, was responding to news of ?300,000 budget cuts a year for the next three years.

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