Interview with Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions
The Law Show
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The Failure of the Prosecutor's Obligations to Disclose Evidence
The fake Sheikh Mazem Ahmad was convicted this month of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. His evidence had led to a number of convictions, but you've ordered a review of 25 cases he was involved in. Are we going to see some successful appeals now? Well, that's a matter because what we can't do is prosecution authority is ask for an appeal against conviction. So what we have done is we have identified those cases where his evidence played a role as much as we can. We've asked publicly if there were any other defendants who are affected to get in touch with us. You're giving evidence to defendants, to their lawyers, which will enable those defendants to appeal against
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