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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Other countries must exercise caution when drawing inspiration from the UK’s Criminal Cases Review Commission, Jon Robins argues

A decade after the ruinous cuts brought about by LASPO 2012, what is the extent of the impact on the legal aid sector? Jon Robins surveys the wreckage

“The policing of protest has been conducted in a routinely violent way for more than four decades”

The Casey Review has lifted the lid on deep-rooted racism, sexism & homophobia in the UK’s largest police force: will it be enough to prompt reform? Jon Robins assesses the review’s disturbing findings

Incriminating evidence & falsified notebooks? Dr Jon Robins recounts a deeply concerning jury verdict delivered at a time of heightened suspicion nationwide

Jon Robins charts the demise of media reporting from the courts & the impact on transparency in the justice system

Overstretched & underfunded: the reasons for the CCRC’s failings are both complex & blindingly obvious, says Jon Robins

The justice system cruelly stacks the odds against the neurodivergent, says Jon Robins

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Jon Robins

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Keoghs—four appointments

Brabners—Ben Lamb