Jon Robins

NLJ columnist

Dr Jon Robins is an NLJ columnist, editor of The Justice Gap, and a lecturer at Brighton University in the criminology department. He is a special adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice and vice chair of the Legal Action Group. Jon is the author of Justice in a time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021), Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The crisis in our justice system (Biteback, 2018) and The First Miscarriage of Justice: The “Amazing and Unreported” Case of Tony Stock (Waterside Press, 2014).

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Jon Robins backs the calls of both Baroness Butler-Sloss & the Justice Committee for the watchdog’s leadership to resign

The Law Commission has set out the case for radical reform of the criminal appeals process: is it enough? Jon Robins reports

Is our criminal appeals system any more prepared to recognise an injustice than it was back in the ‘bad old days’? Jon Robins reports

Rigged datasets & the lottery fallacy: was the conviction of Lucy Letby based on unreliable statistics, asks Jon Robins

Jon Robins on why we need more politicians willing to support unfashionable causes

Andrew Malkinson’s exoneration highlights why a dysfunctional CCRC needs a reset, says Jon Robins

Behind the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson lies an even greater scandal, as Jon Robins reveals

A light is finally being shone on the murky practices of undercover policing: Jon Robins queries whether the ends ever justified the means

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Jon Robins

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan