Reasons to Doubt
Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 January 2019
- ISBN 9780198794578
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 241x164x29 mm
- Weight 772 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
As the first in-depth empirical study of decision-making within the Criminal Cases Review Commission, this monograph reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England and Wales who consider themselves to have been wrongfully convicted, and have exhausted direct appeal processes, take their case to the CCRC.
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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.
Through in-depth analysis of case files and interviews, Hoyle and Sato scrutinize the Commissions operational practices, its working rules and assumptions, considering how these influence its understanding of the real possibility test. Situating their rich empirical data within a framework of the Commissions social, organizational, and legal contexts, this book demonstrates that in its open-ended investigations there is considerable scope for discretion; for thorough exploration of all possible avenues or for choosing a more superficial consideration of a case. It emerges that while structured internal guidance, drawing heavily on Court jurisprudence, shapes decision-making, creating consistency in approach, there remains some variability across cases, over time, that can be accounted for by the different professional backgrounds and personalities of Commission staff.
Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Case Review Commission is a careful work of scholarship ... for readers with a genuine interest in the role and impact of individual discretion in institutional decisionmaking, this book will be well worth your time.
Table of Contents:
Responding to Wrongful Convictions
The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Under-Researched But Under Scrutiny
Understanding Discretion at the Commission: A Socio-Legal Approach
From Application to Conclusion: How Law, Policy, and Culture Shape Organizational Decision-Making
The Nature of Applications to the Commission
Triage: the Screening Process-In or Out?
Managing Uncertainty in Forensic and Expert Evidence Cases
Complainant Credibility in Sexual Offence Cases
Responding to Applicants' Allegations of Policing Without Integrity
Responding to Applicants' Claims of Inadequate Defence
Working Cooperatively with Other Criminal Justice Institutions
Managing Efficiency and Thoroughness in Case Review
'Post-Decision Decision-Making': Further Submissions and Reapplications
Last Chance for Justice
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