Calls for miscarriage of justice investigator
- Title
- Calls for miscarriage of justice investigator
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 2 Jul 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:02:39
- Description
- Political correspondent Paul Rowley interviews Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman on their call for an independent watchdog to investigate miscarriage of justice cases. The watchdog would be called a public defender. Follows successful quashing of convictions for the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven and a Royal Commission being opened into their cases. Maclennan says the existing system is inadequate and in need of urgent reform.
- Contributors
- Paul Rowley; Robert Maclennan
- Keywords
- Ombudsman; Law reform; Criminal justice system; DPP; Miscarriages of justice; Guildford Four; Birmingham Six; Maguire Seven
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