INUK Training

This weekend , I attending the annual training for INUK held at Cardiff University along with my three designated case managers for the GCU Innocence Project.
Friday's session was extremely valuable - an insight into the experiences and views of Gerry Conlon (Guilford Four), Paul Blackburn (wrongfully convicted of murder) and Michael O'Brien (Cardiff newsagent Three). The remainder of the weekend was also well spent looking at the CCRC process (albeit all English law) and how to manage student projects.
The use of CaseMap seems to be a good way to document work that is done by a student group - especially when some students may graduate and a mechanism to 'hand over' is required, but I'll comment on that when we get started with it!

Welcome!

This is the first blog post of the GCU Innocence Project - an extra-curricular (and voluntary) student group who will be looking at claims of wrongful convictions in Scotland. This is the first Scottish project and runs in association with INUK - the Innocence Network UK.
As the project director, I will be reporting here on news and developments arising from case work, and also commenting on the wider field of miscarriages of justice in Scotland and the UK.