Is this ‘miscarriage of justice’ ruling ITSELF a miscarriage of justice?
If innocent people who were wrongly jailed are having to pay ‘bed and board’ out of their compensation payments, is this ‘miscarriage of justice’ ruling itself a miscarriage of justice?
It seems to This Writer that if the justice system sent people to jail wrongly, then the Crown should pay for its mistake, not the innocent person who was wrongly deprived of their liberty.
Here’s the story:
Victims of historic miscarriages of justice have been told by the government they must have “bed and board” costs for the time they spent in prison deducted from their compensation payments.
Last year the Conservative Justice Secretary, Alex Chalk, scrapped the policy of making such deductions from all future payouts.
But the government has now said people who have already had payouts cannot claim back money retrospectively.
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Not only that but one person who was quite young when he was jailed said that the compensation was based on the fact that he “never had a job” when in fact he never had a job because he was wrongly imprisoned!
One rule for them…
Remember iain dummkopf-schmitt retrospectively changing the law so people forced to work for their dole couldn’t claim NMW.
Could a kidnapper charge for ‘bed and board’?