Minutes, papers and reports of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, together with research papers and evidence.
Open evidence is at BS 26/56-794.
BS 26/55 was published as Cm 2263, 1993; the 22 research studies were also published by HMSO.
the arrangements for considering and investigating allegations of miscarriages of justice when appeal rights have been exhausted.
Under the chairmanship of Viscount Runciman of Doxford the commission met 44 times, received written evidence from over 600 organisations and individuals, held seven seminars and spent seven days receiving oral evidence. It commissioned 22 research studies by academic criminologists or lawyers and visited, in groups or individually, all parts of the criminal justice system.
The commission visited Scotland twice and met with members of the Scottish judiciary to learn about the workings of the Scottish criminal justice system. In order to obtain information about other countries' jurisdictions it issued a questionnaire to selected government departments and academic experts in those countries. The responses to this questionnaire were analysed and published separately (Criminal Justice Systems in Other Jurisdictions by N Osner, A Quinn & G Crown, HMSO 1993).