Guildford Four, the Cardiff Three spring instantly to my mind). It does not seem that it was.Putting things right is now a massive task. It is astonishing that this decline has occurred over so long a period, without one of a succession of lord chief justices having exercised their power to lay before parliament, written representations on matters that appeared to them to be matters of importance relating to the judiciary, or otherwise to the administration of justice.
How could matters have been allowed to get to a state where a systemic miscarriage of justice continued so long and, which when discovered, the criminal justice system hasn’t got the capacity to address – without such a power having been exercised?
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