Over the next year, LAG will host a series of talks on miscarriages of justice and those at the sharp end of the justice system. On 26 October 2023, Matt Foot, defence lawyer and co-director of APPEAL, and journalist Morag Livingstone will be discussing their book, Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest (see Sue James’s review at February 2023 Legal Action 12).

On 21 November 2023, Stephen Kamlish KC, Moazzam Begg and Mariam Hussain, sister of Khobaib Hussain, will talk about the Birmingham Four case. On the day the four men were convicted in 2017, their solicitor, Gareth Peirce, took the unprecedented step of making a public statement on behalf of their legal team: ‘[J]urors can on occasion get things wrong. They have done so in significant cases in the past – nowhere more shockingly than when the allegation has been of involvement by defendants in terrorist activity. We are profoundly concerned that the jury in this case has got it wrong.’

In the new year, Garden Court Chambers’ Henry Blaxland KC will talk about the Sam Hallam case and the scandalous lack of compensation for victims of miscarriages of justice, and Emily Bolton, founder of APPEAL, will talk about the Andy Malkinson case (dates to be confirmed).

For more information, visit the LAG events page.