Overview

• Helen Pitcher resigned as chairwoman in January and chief executive Karen Kneller has been told to quit, prompting Dame Vera Baird’s appointment as interim chair.
• A parliamentary report last month faulted the CCRC’s remote-first model and its repeated failures to reassess Andrew Malkinson’s appeal, which succeeded on the third application in 2023.
• Malkinson received a six-figure interim compensation sum this year after spending 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
• Under current social housing rules that treat compensation as income, Malkinson now faces the prospect of losing his home.
• The Law Commission is consulting on criminal appeals reforms and the £1 million compensation cap has not risen since 2008 despite inflation.