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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Caroline Davies

Miscarriage of justice watchdog had ‘hole at its heart’, committee chair says

A headshot of Karen Kneller, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Karen Kneller asked that the CCRC be judged on all its cases and ‘not just those in the headlines’. Photograph: Shelter

Senior management at the miscarriage of justice watchdog were told there was a “hole at the heart” of the organisation as MPs criticised its working from home policy and asked executives if they felt they were the right people to continue leading it.

In an evidence session on Tuesday, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), Karen Kneller, was questioned by the cross-party Commons’ justice committee over its failings in the Andrew Malkinson case, her expensive French business courses, and the organisation’s remote working policy, under which, she told them, she worked just one to two days in its Birmingham head office each month.

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