Rethinking miscarriage of justice

[Johir Uddin]

Miscarriage of justice leading to wrongful conviction or imprisonment has become an accepted reality across most of the countries embracing common law jurisdiction. Apart from the detrimental effect of a wrongful conviction and imprisonment on an individual person, it is also a glaring example of how criminal justice process or system often fails due to various/(numerous) factors such as, prosecutorial misconduct, false confessions, erroneous eye-witness or testimony, unsound forensic reports or its misuse and so on. Experiences from wrongful convictions and imprisonments certainly instill in the victims a profound sense of ‘cynicism and mistrust’ regarding the fairness and legitimacy behind such convictions.

Link: https://www.thedailystar.net/law-our-rights/news/rethinking-miscarriage-justice-1772026

[Mahmud Arif]

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. 

[Johir Uddin]

well said