Simon Hall was convicted of the 2003 murder of 79-year-old Joan Albert, and his case is the first such case worked on by an innocence project in the UK that been referred back to the CA.  The hearing began this week.

The Project, established in January 2005 by Dr Michael Naughton, a senior lecturer in the university’s School of Law and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, is an extra-curricular pro bono clinic for students to learn about criminal law in a real life context.  Naughton says the referral to the CCRC is a “fantastic achievement”.