R (Harris) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted July 16th, 2008 in compensation, law reports, miscarriage of justice by sally

R (Harris) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; [2008] WLR (D) 237

“A defendant whose conviction was quashed on appeal would only be entitled to statutory compensation where that defendant’s innocence had been acknowledged or where there had been serious failures of the trial process.”

WLR Daily, 15th July 2008

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