I cant see what the big problem is if they believe they got it right. What i think is it will highlight further errors by EP and so will find themselves having to spend time and money on explaining thier incompetence.
I think all of us should favour disclosure so we know for sure there is nothing within those files that would throw a spanner in the works
I would have thought the CCRC would have asked for documents if there were any, don't forget Ewan Smith who is with the CCRC once represented Bamber?
The Criminal Appeal Act 1995 which created the Commission provided us with the power
to obtain documents and information from any public body in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Ewen Smith, a partner at Glaisyers in Birmingham, regards himself as a ‘critical friend’ of the CCRC. ‘Of course they are not agents for the defence. However, that doesn’t mean we should just roll over. I must be able to use my experience to try to direct them towards information which I may not be able to get. They don’t like being told what to do but I am not going to sit back and just accept what they say.’
Overall, he says, the CCRC is a valuable organisation and ‘much better than the Home Office, which was far too politically involved in cases. I acted for Jeremy Bamber [convicted in 1986 of murdering five members of his family] when his case was investigated by the commission and referred back to the Court of Appeal – which subsequently rejected it – but I have no criticism of the way they handled that case at all’.
