Recommendation 36

We conclude that, a decade on from our predecessor Committee’s inquiry into the CCRC, there is evidence that the situation for the CCRC has deteriorated significantly. At the time of writing, the CCRC lacks a chair and has struggled to secure a sufficient number of commissioners, which are central to how it operates. The CCRC has moved to remote-first as a means of operation, which is out of step with the rest of the public sector and seems unsuited to the nature of their work. An independent review found a number of significant failures in how it dealt with one of the most significant miscarriages of justice of recent times. The leadership of the organisation failed to respond adequately to Andrew Malkinson’s acquittal and to the publication of the independent review. (Conclusion, Paragraph 99)