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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Criminal cases review body ‘must win back trust’ as interim chairwoman announced

A former victims commissioner has been appointed as a chief of a legal body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice to “win back” the trust it has lost from the public.

Dame Vera Baird KC will become the interim chairwoman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which has been heavily criticised for its handling of the Andrew Malkinson case, one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

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