As with the CCRC Case Library, which launched last September, this new resource will help inform potential applicants and members of the public about the organisation’s work, its tests and processes, and the kinds of cases that have resulted in references to the appeal courts.

The hub has launched with four articles, looking at:

• Unreliable confession cases 
• Reviews into ‘controlled delivery’ drug operations  
• Asylum & immigration investigations 
• Referrals of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences 

New case studies will be published fortnightly. Future topics will include police misconduct, legal incompetence, judicial errors, and mistaken identity.

Each feature will link to individual case studies from the Case Library, a listing of all referrals the CCRC has made since beginning work in 1997 where you can search, filter and read summaries of referrals.

A CCRC spokesperson said: “These thematic case studies will help people understand more fully the range of the work carried out by our team, and the basis on which our many hundreds of referrals have been made.

“We hope this will assist potential applicants and support our work in finding and investigating possible miscarriages of justice.”

The CCRC has so far referred more than 860 cases back to the courts. More than 840 of those cases have now been heard, with the appeal successful in more than two thirds of them.