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False Allegations Hub · 25 September 2026
New rape courtrooms in England and Wales and pre-recorded evidence in NSW are sold as easing delays and stress for complainants. What about a fair trial for the accused?
The Court of Appeal found a deputy High Court judge should not have heard a suspended optometrist's appeal by video link from his bed, the day after surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon, though it ruled the hearing caused no injustice.
23 September 2026
Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs, who died in 2004, exonerated of mailbag theft after new evidence emerged
22 September 2026
Wrongfully accused in a deadly Florida crash, Lindsey Isaacs will testify before the U.S. Senate about surveillance camera technology.
22 September 2026
A Montana lawyer from a family of prosecutors argues that mistaken eyewitness testimony and pressure on doubting jurors send innocent people to prison — and that those who doubt deserve respect.
22 September 2026
The NSW government plans to let complainants in adult sexual assault trials give pre-recorded evidence-in-chief, trial ground rules hearings in three District Courts, and narrow court access to counselling records.
22 September 2026
More than 15,000 sexual offense cases are clogging England and Wales’ senior criminal court, with survivors often waiting months or years for a trial.
21 September 2026
A retired civil rights attorney contrasts Michigan's compensation law for the wrongly convicted, which lets exonerees also sue, with Indiana's, which pays only if they give up the right to sue forever.
21 September 2026
MPs, unions and police leaders urge the Prime Minister to order a Royal Commission on prisons and the justice system instead of piecemeal reviews.
21 September 2026
Jordan D. Coleman filed a federal lawsuit against Lewis County, WA over his wrongful conviction for sexual assault of a minor.
21 September 2026