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We have now booked a venue in Birmingham for our conferences next year. The dates are as follows Spring conference Saturday 18 May 2024 AGM…
BBC Reports on the Costs of False Allegations
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes It’s not often that the BBC reports on the devastating impact of wrongful allegations. We are delighted that two of…
A New Zealand Campaigner for Victims of Wrongful Sexual Allegations
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Of course, wrongful allegations of sexual abuse and assault are not limited to the UK. These are a world wide…
Andrew Malkinson’s Exoneration Highlights Catastrophic Failure of Justice System
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes On this pageWhat Went Wrong?”Grave and Repeated” Disclosure Failings by Greater Manchester Police (GMP)Assailant’s Description Didn’t Match Malkinson’s AppearanceGMP Later…
How to hack a memory: how someone can remember something that didn’t really happen
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes If you had a memory of being abused as a child and someone told you that this was a false…
Why you can’t always trust childhood memories
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Whether or not all memories are accurate is of vital importance to the wrongfully accused. This is particularly the case…
‘Robbed of Everything’: The Voices of Former Prisoners Maintaining Innocence, and their Relatives
Rosalie Burnett DPhil (University of Oxford) and Naomi-Ellen Speechley PhD (University of Manchester) have just published another important report on the experiences of those wrongfully…
How Common are Wrongful Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse?
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes On this pageSo how common are wrongful allegations of child sexual abuse (CSA)?How is child sexual abuse (CSA) defined?A spectrum…
False Allegations Are Not Very Rare; Ellie Williams is Exceptional
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Table of contentsMen’s lives were wrecked by the false allegationsFalse allegations are not very rareHow are false allegations counted?A Compromise…
The Wrong Kind of Victims
Estimated reading time: 16 minutes On this pageWho is the Victim?Can Someone Perverting the Course of Justice be a Victim?Why no Compensation for the Victims…
Two New Podcasts on False Allegations
A new podcast series ‘The Problem with Men’ has published a series of two podcasts on the experience of being falsely accused of rape. This…
A case of mistaken identity that cost Anthony Broadwater 40 years of his life
The tragic story of Antony Broadwater’s wrongful conviction is essential reading because, although it took place in the USA, there are important lessons for our…