... into the public eye. (Sourced from Cases and Materials on the English Legal System, M. Zander). Of these cases I will discuss the Birmingham Six [1982] AC 529, [1981] 3 ALL ER 727, [1981] 3 WLR 906, due to it being the most forefront of the three. In this case, six Irish Catholics living in England were wrongly convicted, in 1975, of the murder in of 21 people after bomb detonations at the Mulberry Bar in Birmingham in 1974. They were allegedly tied to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and following their trial, they were given life sentences and served 16 years in prison before having their convictions repealed. They were subsequently freed after their Court of Appeal hearing on March 14th 1991. This was the same day that the government announced the establishment of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. (Sourced from www.guardian.co.uk and Cases and Materials on the ...

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